Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- A Dhaka court has ordered 26 people arrested over garment workers' protests in Mirpur to be sent to jail in three separate cases.

Two metropolitan magistrate courts passed the orders on Monday after separate hearings of the cases involving attacks on police, crude bomb explosions, arson, and vandalism.

Of the accused, 13 were sent to jail in an Anti-Terrorism Act case filed with Pallabi Police Station, seven in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act and Penal Code, and six in another Anti-Terrorism Act case filed with Mirpur Model Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Prosecution Division Sub-Inspectors Abu Bakar Siddique and Rafiqul Islam shared the development.

Police produced the 26 arrestees bef...