The High Court on Sunday ordered the jail authorities to give first class facility in jail to five Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders who were arrested in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan.

The BNP leaders are — adviser to BNP chairperson Abdus Salam, BNP joint general secretary Khairul Kabir Khokon, publication secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie, former organising secretary Fazlul Haque Milan and Barisal district (south) BNP convener and National Executive Committee member Abul Hossain Khan.

The HC bench of Justice KM Kamrul Quader and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order after hearing a writ petition seeking division for them in jail.

On December 13, a writ petition was filed in the High Court seeking first class facility in jail for the BNP leaders.

On December 7, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office, ahead of its December 10 rally. The BNP leaders were arrested on the same day following the clash.

A Dhaka court sent 445 BNP leaders and activists including Annie and Salam to jail in two cases filed over the violence and order to give division in jail to the five leaders on the following day.

Later, on December 9, a team of Detective Branch of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their houses in separate raids in the capital city.

Later, they were arrested in a case filed over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital’s Nayapaltan.

A Dhaka court ordered the jail authorities to give division facilities to them on December 9 and then they were given the division facility on December 13.