Cumilla: A court in Cumilla yesterday rejected the bail petition of BNP Chairperson's adviser Monirul Haque Chowdhury and sent him to jail in a case filed over deaths of eight people in an arson attack in 2015, reports UNB.

District and Sessions Judge KM Shamsul Alam passed the order when Monirul Haque, also a member of coordinating committee of Jatiya Oikyafront, surrendered before it after completion of his interim bail granted by the High Court.

On February 3, 2015, eight people were killed and at least 20 others injured in a petrol bomb attack on a bus at Jagmohanpur in Chouddagram upazila during the BNP-led alliance's movement.