Tarique, Fakhrul among 6 BNP leaders sued

A case has been filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and four other top leaders of the party for assaulting Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad President AB Siddique in the capital’s Bangsal area on April 30. AB Siddique filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sufian Mohammad Noman today. The other accused are -- BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, standing committee members Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy.