Online Desk: A Dhaka court today framed charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and seven others in a case filed over torching a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation in the city’s Paltan area in 2012.

The seven others are BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, Jamaat-e-Islami South City Secretary General Shafiqul Islam Masud, BNP Information and Research Secretary Azizul Bari Helal, former Jubo Dal president Saiful Alam Nirob, BNP activists Moazzem Hossain Babu, Kazi Rezaul Haque Babu and Khondaker Enamul Haque Enam.

Fakhrul, Rizvi and six others, now on bail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain read out the charges to them. Before that, the magistrate dismissed petitions submitted for discharging them from the charges of the case. The magistrate fixed September 20 for starting trial of the case.

According to the case statement, a group of BNP leaders and activists led by Fakhrul and Rizvi torched a garbage truck at Bijoynagar of Paltan around 7:00pm on December 9 of 2012 when the driver was going to Matuail landfil. Later, a case was filed against Fakhrul, Rizvi and 20 others with Paltan Model Police Station in this regard. After investigation, police on October 13, 2017 submitted a charge sheet against the eight accused.