A number of top BNP leaders, accused in two separate cases relating to the April 29 hartal violence, went to the High Court on Sunday to sign vokalatnama (power of attorney).
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Goyeswar Chandra Roy, central leaders Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, Amanullah Aman, Habibunnabi Sohel and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anny reached the HC in the afternoon.
They were staying on the court premises till 8:10pm when the report was filed.
Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, a counsel for the defendants, told The Daily Star that the BNP leaders would file bail petitions Monday morning.
Police filed the two cases – one for exploding "bombs" on the Bangladesh Secretariat compound and the other for torching a bus next to the Prime Minister's Office on April 29.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is also accused in both the cases.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, joint secretary general of the main opposition party, was arrested on April 30 and the other defendants have gone into hiding to evade arrests after the cases were filed on the night of April 29.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced the back-to-back daylong shutdowns on April 29 and April 30 to press the government to trace former BNP lawmaker M Ilias Ali.
Earlier, the main opposition party enforced three consecutive dawn-to-dusk hartals from April 22-24 on the same demand.
The BNP's organising secretary and his driver Ansar Ali went missing on the night of April 17 from the capital.
Ilias's car was found abandoned in Banani with all its four doors wide open, giving an impression that he was abducted.
The main opposition claims that the government's law enforcement agencies picked him up. The government, however, refutes the allegation, claiming that it is a drama staged by the BNP.
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