A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced 25 leaders and activists to three years in jail in connection with a case filed over vandalising vehicles and shops five years back.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Sheikh Sadi passed the order.

The court also fined them Tk 4,000 each, in default to suffer one year each, in rigorous imprisonment. 

The BNP leaders and activists include Sohel, Raju, Hazi Siraj, Mamun, Rony, Moin, Hazi Md Masum, Omar Faruk, and Razia Alam alias Razia Sultana.

Their punishment will be effective from the day they will surrender before the court.

On September 6, 2018, a group of BNP leaders and activists and their associate bodies gathered in front of Ahmed Bawani School in the Bongshal area of the capital demanding the release of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.

They also vandalised several vehicles and shops there.

Sub-inspector Azhar Hossain filed a case with Bongshal Police Station.

On June 30, 2019, police submitted a chargesheet against 25 leaders and activists of BNP.