23 BNP men sent to jail over Naya Paltan clash

A Dhaka court has sent 23 leaders and workers of BNP, including the party's Dhaka district unit President Khandakar Abu Ashfaq, to jail in connection with two separate cases lodged under the Explosive Substances act with Paltan Model and Motijheel police stations.

As the accused were produced before the court Sunday morning, the police asked the court to keep them in jail until the investigation is over, reports BSS.

The defence attorneys, however, pleaded for their bail.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda scrapped the bail pleas and ordered to send them to jail.

On December 8, police filed two separate cases over the clash that took place between police and BNP men in the city's Naya Paltan on December 7.