Dhaka, Feb. 1 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been denied bail in a case over an attack on the residence of the chief justice during a BNP rally in Dhaka on Oct 28.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury heard Fakhrul's bail petition on Thursday before scrapping it.

It is the second time the magistrate's court has scrapped Fakhrul's bail petition.

"This has paved the way for us to go to higher courts," said Fakhrul's lawyer Syed Zainul Abedin Mesbah. "We will now take it to the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's court. If the bail is rejected, we will go to the High Court."

Fakhrul and several other BNP leaders were arrested after party activists clashed with police in Dhaka's Paltan on ...