DHAKA: A Dhaka court Monday rejected the bail petitions of four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, who are now facing trial in the war-crime tribunal, in separate other cases.

They are Party Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, and assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah.

Acting session Judge Ismail Hossain issued the rejection order after hearings on five bail petitions filed with the Metropolitan Session Judge’s court.

The Jamaat leaders’ lawyers, Abdur Razzak and SM Kamaluddin Ahmed, filed the petitions in two cases filed with Ramna thana and Airport thana each and three other cases pending with Paltan thana.

Shah Alam Talukdar moved for the government.

Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee were arrested on June 29 on charges of hurting religious sentiments of Muslims through their perceived blasphemous comments.

Later, party assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were arrested from the High Court gate on July 13 in a murder-and-arson case filed with Pallabi thana by an injured freedom fighter in January 2008.

BDST: 1609 HRS. AUGUST 9, 2010