BNP leader Annie sent to jail after four-day remand

A Dhaka court on Saturday sent BNP Publicity Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie to jail after a four-day remand in a case lodged over obstructing police from performing their duties and vandalising vehicles in the city's Dhanmondi area in May this year.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order after the Investigation Officer (IO) produced Annie before the court on completion of his four-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep him behind bars till the end of the investigation in the case.

Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam granted four-day remand on October 11 as police produced Annie before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand.

Police arrested the BNP leader from Dhanmandi area in the early hours on Wednesday (October 11) in the case filed with Dhanmandi Police Station over obstructing police from conducting their duties and vandalising vehicles.

According to the case documents, leaders and activists of BNP on May 23, 2023, brought out a rally in front of the City College in Dhanmandi. Armed with local weapons, sticks and crude bombs, they obstructed police from performing their duties, attacked the law enforcers, vandalised vehicles and blasted cocktails.