A Dhaka court today sent 16 people, arrested for launching attack on law enforcers and Awami League activists at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Tuesday, to jail in a case lodged over the incident.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farah Diba Chanda passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to keep them behind bars till the end of the probe in the case.

The accused are- Md Imtiyaz Chowdhury, Md Sajal, Md Sahabaj, Monir Hossan, Md Tarek Hasan, Md Monjur, Md Uzzal Miah, Md Motiur Rahman, Md Alamin, Md Ali, Md Saiful Islam, Mohiuddin, Md Jaminur Rahman, Saiful Islam, Eusuf Fakir and Rahmatullah.

According to the case documents, Jamaat-Shibir cadres attacked police with brickbats that triggered a chase and counter-chase in the area on Tuesday. They were demanding to hold a 'gayebana janaza' for convicted war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayeedi.

BDST: 2008 HRS, AUGUST 16, 2023
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