Eighty nine leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami, including BNP Joint Secretary General Mizanur Rahman Minu and Rajshahi city Mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul, were charged on Monday in connection with their role in two cases related to last year's bomb explosion in Rajshahi City.
Nur Hossain, inspector of Detective Branch of police in Rajshahi and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheets to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Rajshahi, the Daily Star reports.
Of the cases, one was filed for killing police constable Siddhartha Chandra Sarkar, 23, while another was filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
On December 26 last year, Sarkar, 23, and eight other policemen sustained injuries after BNP-Jamaat men allegedly hurled a bomb on a police patrol van in Rajarhata area of Rajshahi city.
Siddhartha succumbed to his injuries at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka that night.
Sub-inspector Saiful Islam filed the two cases with Boalia Police Station accusing some 87 BNP and Jamaat men.
On February 24 this year, a Rajshahi court sent to jail 34 BNP leaders and activists, including Minu and Bulbul, who surrendered before it seeking bail in the two cases. Minu and Bulbul are on bail now.
