Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a three-day remand in an arson case filed with Badda police station.

Dhaka additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Alamgir Kabir Raj passed the order when Mosharraf Hossain, a sub-inspector of Badda Police Station, and also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.

The court also turned down a bail petition filed by Rizvi’s counsel Sanaullah Miah.

On January 26, miscreants set a bus of ‘Anabil Paribahan’ alight at Badda Link Road in the city amid the countrywide nonstop blockade sponsored by the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance.

Jamirudddin, supervisor of Anabil Paribahanm, filed a case against 28 identified, including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and ex-MP MA Kaiyum, and 20-15 unidentified people in this connection with Badda police station.

Later, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) picked up BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi from a house at Baridhara in the city early Saturday.