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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 vandalising 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, BSS reports.
According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people ransacked Kazipara Metrorail station from 4:00 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, plea said the station suffered a loss of around Tk 1 billion (Tk 100 crore) by the vandals and the arrestees took part in the anarchy as per their conspiracy to destabilise and ultimately topple the government.