Dhaka, April 1 -- BNP's Joint Secretary General Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel was sent to jail on Sunday after he surrendered before two separate courts of Dhaka in three cases, in which he was sentenced to a total of five years and six months' imprisonment in absentia.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ataullah of Dhaka CMM Court sent Sohel to prison after he surrendered before the court in two cases filed over assaulting policemen and preventing them from discharging their duties in Dhaka's New Market and Paltan areas in 2015 and 2018.
On November 20 last year, the court sentenced Sohel and 13 others to 18
months' imprisonment for their alleged involvement with committing the offences, said advocate Syed Zainal Abedin Meshbah.
On the same day, the...