BNP leader Mokbul remanded in New Market mayhem case

A Dhaka court has placed BNP leader Mokbul Hossain on a three-day remand in a case filed over instigating clashes between shopkeepers and Dhaka College students in the capital's New Market area.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mamunur Rashid passed the order on Sunday afternoon rejecting Mokbul's bail prayer. 

Earlier in the day, Halder Arpita Thakur, an inspector of New Market Police Station and also the Investigation Officer of the case produced him before the court with a seven-day remand plea.