A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued warrants for arresting Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman(now on remand in another case) and 11 activists of the party in a sabotage case filed in 2012. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the order, said Azad Rahman, special public prosecutor of the court. He said Wednesday (today) was the date of recording testimonies of the accused but the accused did not appear the court and submitted a time petition. Read more: Jamaat chief put on 7-day remand Later, the court issued the arrest warrant against them after rejecting time petition submitted by their counsels, he said. The case was filed against them for holding a ‘secret anti-government meeting’ at the local Uttara Paschim police station in 2012. On December 12, members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested the Jammat leader from his house in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act. A Dhaka court put him on a seven-day remand in the case lodged at Jatrabari police station. Read more: Jamaat ameer involved in breeding new militant outfit: CTTC chief Earlier, his son Rafat Sadik Saifullah was also arrested in the case and he has been in jail.  

Two separate courts in Dhaka have issued arrest warrants against BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and BNP executive committee member Ishraque Hossain. A Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against Rizvi Ahmed in a case filed over vandalising a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the Tejgaon area in December 2012. The court of Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate passed the order on Thursday last. Read: BNP leader Ishraque comes under attack by BCL in city The two other accused were known as Khandker Enamul Haque and Kazi Rezaul Haque, said Atiqur Rahman, bench assistant of the court on Monday (December 5). Meanwhile, the court also fixed March 29 of 2023 for the next hearing in the case. Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against thirteen people including BNP leader Ishraque Hossain in a case filed with Motijheel Police in 2020. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury issued the warrant after rejecting the time petition, said sub-inspector Shaha Alam of the general registrar branch of the court under Motijheel Police Station. Read: 75 sued over crude bomb blast in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan office Of the 45 accused, 13 accused of the case filed a time petition before the court without appearing for it. According to the case statement, the accused in collusion with each other set fire on a vehicle in Motijheel area opposite to the Bangladesh Bank, in a bid to foil the Dhaka-18 constituency election on June 24, 2020. Ataur Rahman Bhuiya, the then sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station filed the case against 42 people at Motijheel Police Station.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the warrants issued for the arrest of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman was part of the government’s political vengeance. Speaking at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, he also said the government has been using ‘false’ cases as a political weapon to suppress the opposition and create a ground for depoliticisation in the country.  “There is no basis in the case in which the arrest warrants were issued against our leader Tarique Rahman and Dr Zubaida Rahman. The Awami League government filed the case out of political vengeance as an attempt to keep them away from Bangladesh and politics,” the BNP leader said. Read more: Arrest warrants issued for Tarique and Zubaida Rahman in corruption case He condemned the issuance of arrest warrants and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the warrants and the case. Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court issued warrants for the arrest of Tarique and Zubaida in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Asaduzzaman court passed the order after taking the chargesheet against them into cognisance. Read more: Bangladesh not facing crisis, BNP is in deep crisis: Quader Fakhrul said the government has already kept the BNP Chairperson under house arrest by convicting her in ‘false’ cases only due to political vengeance." Our Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is being forced to stay abroad using false cases. The case against Zubaida, a professional and talented physician, was filed for political reasons since she is the daughter-in-law of the Zia family.” In response to a question, he said though Zubaida is a non-political professional the arrest warrant was issued against her only because of the government’s fear of the Zia family. The BNP leader alleged that the government has been trying to eliminate BNP and Zia family from politics over the 14 years through various repressive and suppressive acts, and laws and by using law enforcers. He warned the government that its all efforts to weaken BNP will go in vain since the country’s people are with the party. “Despite so much torture, BNP is waking up like a phoenix. There’s no way to prevent the emergence of BNP as it’s a party of people.”  No food stock to face emergency  Fakhrul said their standing committee meeting on Monday elaborately discussed the Prime Minister’s recent remark about a possible famine in the next year. “Our meeting felt that the PM’s statement has clearly manifested that the government has failed to stockpile food to face exigency. He said the BNP policymakers expressed deep concern as the import of food grains has decreased by about 37 percent in the last four months. Read more: Huge crowds in BNP rally mean they want democracy back, says Mirza Fakhrul “The country’s food security is now under an extreme threat due to the unprecedented corruption, indifference and incompetence of the Food Ministry and the Food Department of the government. At the same time due to corruption, unnecessary spending on different projects and dollar shortages are disrupting imports,” the BNP leader observed. He also bemoaned that the country’s economic crisis is deepening because of the unethical withdrawal of dollars from reserves and siphoning off 7/8 billion dollars every year through illegal channels like hundi. Fakhrul also expressed concern over the increase in the production cost of food grains caused by the increase in the price of fertilisers, seeds and disruption of irrigation operations across the country and for lack of electricity and diesel.

A Dhaka court today issued arrest warrants for BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Asaduzzaman court passed the order after taking the charge sheet against them into cognisance. The court also directed the officer-in-charge (OC) of Cantonment police station to submit a progress report regarding the arrest warrant on January 5 next year. Read more: Graft case against Tarique, Zubaida: HC asks trial court to dispose of case soon On June 26, High court ordered the judicial court to dispose of the case as soon as possible. The HC also rejected the couple’s writ petitions, challenging the corruption case against them for acquiring wealth beyond their known sources of income and concealing information in their affidavits. As both of them remain fugitive, the court rejected the writ petitions – saying these are not acceptable. The court also withdrew the stay order on the trial proceedings of the case filed against them. Read more: Verdict on Tarique-Zubaida’s whereabouts on June 26 On September 26, 2007, ACC lodged a complaint with Kafrul police against Tarique Rahman, Zubaida and her mother Iqbal Mand Banu for amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 4.81 crore and concealing the information. In the same year, the High Court issued a rule suspending the trial proceedings in the case after hearing a petition filed by Zubaida. The HC rejected the rule in 2017 and asked her to surrender before the court within eight weeks.

 A Dhaka court Monday issued warrants for the arrest of  BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and its Rajshahi division organizing secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu in a case filed under the Special Powers Act. The case was filed at Shahbagh police station in 2018 . Read:Tarique, Fakhrul among 9 face arrest warrant Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Emrul Kayes passed the order. Besides, the court accepted the charge sheet submitted against them.

A court here on Sunday issued arrest warrants against wife and brother of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman, in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information.