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A Dhaka court has placed six people including a journalist on a five-day remand each in a case lodged for vandalising Kazipara Metro Rail Station in the capital's Mirpur.
The six remanded accused are journalist Hafiz Al Asad alias Sayeed Khan, Sanaul Haque Niru, Alamgir, Mohiuddin Ahmed Bhuiyan alias Nayeem, Abdul Aziz Sultan and Mayeen.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arobia Khanam passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place them on a 10-day remand each, according to a BSS report Friday.
According to the case documents, a mob of five to six thousand people ransacked Kazipara Metro Rail 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.