Tarique faces arrest in explosives case, too

Dhaka, July 14 (bdnews24.com)?After the Aug 21 grenade attack killing case, a Dhaka court has issued arrest warrant for BNP chief Khaleda Zia's eldest son Tarique Rahman in the case filed for use of explosives in the same incident.

Metropolitan sessions judge Zahirul Haque on Thursday ordered his arrest, and asked police to submit a report on his arrest, in line with the warrant, on July 26.

Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court earlier on July 3 had issued arrest warrant for Tarique, also BNP's senior vice-chairman, and 17 others hours after submission of supplementary charge sheets in the case filed for the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.

At least 24 people, including incumbent president Zillur Rahman 's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and 73 injured in the attack.

Thirty people, including Tarique, were named in the supplementary charge-sheet, raising the number of charge-sheeted accused in the case to 52. Twenty-two people were earlier accused in the first charge-sheet submitted on June 22, 2008.

After the issuance of arrest warrants against the 18, six of them ? three former inspectors general of police and three former investigation officers of the case ?surrendered before the court and they were sent to jail.

Tarique, who faces 14 cases on charges of corruption and extortion, is currently under treatment in the UK for a broken back after being released on parole in 2008.

He is widely accused of running a government parallel to his mother's 2001-6 government from Khaleda's Hawa Bhaban political office in Gulshan.

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