Narail Correspondent

Some 200 BNP-Jamaat members acquitted in Narail sabotage case. The court has acquitted 200 accused in the chargesheet filed in the case related to the clash between BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists with the police at Ghorakhali intersection in Narail Municipality on December 11, 2013.

Narail Chief Judicial Magistrate Hadiuzzaman passed the verdict on Thursday afternoon.

Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) of the court, Adv Azizul Islam, confirmed the matter to The Country Today.

People acquitted in the verdict are: District BNP General Secretary Monirul Islam, District BNP Senior Vice President and former Mayor of Narail Municipality Zulfikar Ali Mandal, Narail District BNP Organizing Secretary Shahriar Rizvi George, Sadar Upazila BNP General Secretary Mujahidur Rahman Palash, Municipal BNP General Secretary Khandaker Fashiar Rahman, District Jubo Dal Organizing Secretary Shihabur Rahman Shihab, Jamaat leaders Oliar Rahman and Shariful Islam Beg.

According to source, on December 11, 2013, leaders and activists of the District BNP and Jamaat took out a protest procession in support of the strike at Ghorakhali intersection of Narail Municipality. At that time, a bloody clash broke out when the police stopped them. Many people from both sides were seriously injured in the clash that lasted for several hours.

SI Atiquzzaman filed a case as a plaintiff with Narail Sadar Police Station on December 11, 2013. In this case, 78 people were named and 2.5 to 3 thousand unknown people were named as accused. After investigating the case, on August 7, 2016, Sadar Police Station SI Shekhar Chandra Mallick filed a chargesheet in court accusing 200 people.