They were arrested for preventing participants from bidding in a tender at the Construction Maintenance Management Unit (CMMU) of the health ministry on July 30.

After scrutinising the case docket (CD) and other relevant documents, Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali Reza of the Speedy Trial Court-6 will pass the order on the issue.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 13 JCD leaders and activists at the CMMU while they were making obstructions for the tender bidders from buying schedules and dropping those on July 30.

Rab pressed charges against 11 JCD leaders and activists on August 10.

Later, the investigation officer (IO) dropped names of five others, including a fugitive from the charge sheet, as their names and addresses, given by four accused in their confessional statements, were not correct.

They told a metropolitan magistrate on August 20 that Shaikot and Asad, two JCD leaders of Fazlul Haq Muslim Hall of Dhaka University, engaged them to obstruct buying and dropping of tender schedules for jobs worth around Tk 400 crore.

Two of the chargesheeted accused -- Asaduzzaman Asad and AKM Azad Swadhin are still at large and the court had earlier directed the authorities concerned to publish an advertisement in a national daily asking them to appear before it to face trial.

The last date for buying the schedules for the three projects under the development budget was August 1, while the next day was the deadline for dropping the tender schedules, which were being sold at 36 places across the country, sources said.