Zahid Faruk sent to jail

A Barishal court has rejected the bail petition of former state minister for water resources Col (retd) Zahid Faruk and sent him to jail.

Barisal Metropolitan Magistrate Md Nurul Amin gave the order on Monday in a case filed for vandalizing a BNP office.

Faruk was arrested from his house in Dhaka's Baridhara on Sunday evening.

He was accused in several murder cases with different police stations.

On August 23, Barishal city BNP convenor Moniruzzaman Khan Farooq filed a case against 381 named accused, including Faruk, and 600-700 unidentified accuse.