DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday rejected bail petition of four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, who are now facing trial in the war-crime tribunal, in a case of obstructing police duty and vandalizing vehicles.

The bail petition was moved when Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were produced in the court.

Metropolitan magistrate Mustafa Shahriar Khan issued the rejection order when the bail petition was moved by Advocate Abdur Razzak and SM Kamaluddin Ahmed for the accused.
 
The court fixed November 11 for submitting the probe report in the case.

Kadamtali thana sources told banglanews24.com.bd that another Jamaat leader, Delwar Hossain Sayedee, could not be produced before the court Tuesday “for his illness”.

Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary-General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee were arrested on June 29 on charges of hurting religious sentiments of Muslims through their perceived blasphemous comments.

Later, assistant secretaries-general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah were arrested from the High Court gate on July 13 in a murder-and-arson case filed with Pallabi thana by an injured freedom fighter in January 2008.

BDST: 1426HRS, AUG 10, 2010