Trial proceedings of Fakhrul in vandalism case stayed

The High Court today stayed trial proceedings of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed for vandalism in 2015.

The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain to why the proceedings of the case against Mirza Fakhrul should not be scrapped.

The stay order will continue until disposal of the rule, according to the HC order.

The bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the order and the rule after hearing a petition filed by Fakhrul seeking stay of the trial proceedings of the case.

On January 6, 2015, police filed the case with Paltan Police Station against Mirza Fakhrul, who is now on bail in all the cases filed against him, and 50 other BNP leaders and activists on charge of vandalism a vehicle during an antigovernment agitation at Paltan area, Fakhrul’s lawyer Advocate Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star.

Police submitted a charge sheet of the case to a court in Dhaka on January 16 this year, he added.

Advocate Zainul Abedin appeared for Fakhrul while Deputy Attorney General Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir represented the state.

DAG Moniruzzaman told this correspondent that the government will move an appeal before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the HC’s stay order.