Sultan Mansur remanded in BNP rally attack case
A Dhaka court today placed former lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Monsur Ahmed on a five-day remand in a case lodged with Paltan Police Station for allegedly carrying out attacks on a rally of BNP with the aim to kill its leaders.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ragib Nur passed the order as police produced Sultan Monsur before the court and pleaded to place him on ten-day remand in the case.
Detective Branch (DB) of police detained Sultan Monsur, also ex-vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union, from the immigration of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today.
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According to the case documents, BNP called a rally in the capital's Nayapaltan area on 28 October 2023. To counter the BNP rally, Awami League too convened its rally on the same day in the capital.
The Awami League men, with the support of law enforcing agencies, attacked the BNP rally, leaving many of its leaders and activists injured, the case statement said.
The case was filed on 24 September 2024.
