8 including Rizvi, Parwar remanded in Metrorail station vandalizing case

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed eight people including BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Nurul Haque Nur to five-day remand in a case lodged for vandalizing Kazipara Metrorail Station in the capital's Mirpur.

The other remanded accused are-- BNP leaders Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Aminul Haque, Sultan Salauddin Tuku, MA Salam and activist Mahmudus Salehin.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the order as police pleaded to show the accused arrested in the case and place them on a 10-day remand.

According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people ransacked Kazipara Metrorail station from 4 pm to 7:30 pm on July 19.

They plundered expensive equipment and broke all the glasses, screens, and ticket vending machines, among other things.

The investigation officer, in his remand, the plea said the station suffered a loss of around Tk 100 crore by the vandals and the arrestees took part in the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilize and ultimately topple the government.