Former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Azizul Bari Helal and 60 others were placed on different terms of remand in three cases filed for assaults on police.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Dhaka court sent BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy to jail and remanded 54 others on different terms after they were produced before in the three cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations.
They were arrested as part of a police crackdown on BNP leaders and activists that started after BNP activists attacked police and snatched two fellow activists from a prison van in High Court area on Tuesday.
On that day, several hundred BNP leaders and activists were accompanying a motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia while she was returning home after appearing a court at Bakshibazar.
Of the 61 accused, Helal and 32 others were placed on a five-day remand each in a case filed with Ramna Police Station over assaulting policemen and preventing them from discharging their duties in front of BTCL crossing on Tuesday.
Ramna police produced before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Ahsan Habib with a 10-day remand prayer for each of them while the defence submitted separate bail petitions along with cancellation of the remand prayer.
On the other hand, 28 other BNP activists were placed on a two-day remand each in the other two cases filed with Shahbagh Police Station for assaulting policemen, ransacking a prison van and preventing policemen from discharging their duties in front of Kadam Chattar on Tuesday.
Shahbagh police produced them before the same court with a seven-day remand prayer.
The court also cancelled the remand prayer of nine others considering their ages and sickness.
