BSS, Dhaka:

A Dhaka court today sent Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman and former member of parliament barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho to jail after end of his three-day remand in a case lodged over vandalizing and setting fire to the Setu Bhaban in the capital’s Banani area.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam passed the order as police produced Partho before the court and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the end of probe in the case.

Earlier on July 30, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam had placed Partho on three-day remand in the case. Earlier Partho was placed on five-day remand in the same case on July 25.

The detective branch (DB) of the police arrested Partho from the capital’s Baridhara area on July 24.

A mob of 250/300 people on July 18 stormed into the premises of Setu Bhaban, vandalized many vehicles, and motorbikes, ransacked different sheds and rooms, and later set those on fire. They attacked and beat many employees black and blue.