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8 including Fakhrul, Rizvi exempted from vehicle torching charges

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A court here today exempted eight persons including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed from the charges of a case lodged over vandalizing and torching a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

The other six people, who were spared from the charges are – Jamaat leader Dr Muhammad Shafikul Islam Masud, BNP leaders Saiful Alam Nirob, Azizul Bari Helal, Moazzem Hossain Babu, Qazi Rezaul Haque Babu and Khandaker Enamul Haque Enam.

“The case was at the stage of testimony for long. No witnesses were turning up before the court for testifying in the case. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman today finally relieved the accused from the charges,” defence counsel Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah told BSS.

DSCC staff Md Ainal filed the case on December 9, 2012. Police on October 23, 2017, filed charge sheet in the case.

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