SC: Order on Fakhrul's bail after getting health report

The order on the bail of BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam in three cases will be delivered after the health report of the BNP leader is submitted to the Supreme Court.

The four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, did not give its order on Wednesday, as health report of the BNP leader was not submitted before the court.

The court said it would give the order on the petitions after receiving Fakhrul's health report.

On July 5, the same bench fixed July 8 to give its order on the petitions filed by the government seeking stay on High Court order that granted bail to Mirza Fakhrul.

On June 21, the High Court granted Fakhrul bail in the cases and the prosecution filed separate pleas against the court order.

On Sunday, the Appellate Division upheld the BNP leader’s bail in three other cases after hearing the prosecution’s plea to stay that. On June 18, the BNP leader secured interim bail from the High Court in those cases.

Fakhrul is now under treatment in the BSMMU prison cell. He was detained on January 6 and was shown arrested in seven cases filed over violence, arson attacks, vandalism and explosion charges.

As the trial court did not give him bail, Fakhrul moved to the High Court with bail petitions.

On June 13, in accordance with a High Court order, he was shifted from Kashimpur jail to the hospital as he fell sick.