BNP leader Sohel sent to jail upon surrender

The court has sent BNP Joint Secretary General and President of Dhaka Metropolitan South Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel to jail upon surrender before it in three separate cases filed with New Market and Paltan police stations on charges of obstructing police in conducting their duties.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Md Moinul Islam and Md Akhtaruzzaman passed the order after rejecting his bail petitions on Sunday (March 31).

Syed Joynal Abedin Mesbah, lawyer for the BNP leader, said the court sentenced him to one and a half years in a case filed with the New Market police station and four years imprisonment in two cases filed with the Paltan police station.

In all three cases, he has been accused of obstructing police from performing their duties.

A case was filed with the Paltan police station in October 2017 and another in February 2018 on charges of obstructing police from performing their duties.

In January 2015, another case was filed against Sohel with the New Market police station on the same charges. He was sentenced to one and a half years of jail in the case last year.