The High Court has granted bail to BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in a case filed over the January 30 attack on law enforcers near the court.
After release from jail on Tuesday at 7am, Gayeshwar visited ailing BNP General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at United Hospital in Gulshan of Dhaka, Gayeshwar’s daughter in-law Nipun Roy told the Dhaka Tribune.
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Law enforcers picked up the BNP senior leader on the night of January 30 while returning home after a meeting at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office.
His arrest came hours after the party’s activists and leaders attacked law enforcement and snatched two of their peers from police custody near the High Court when Khaleda appeared before a special court in the Bakshibazar area for the ongoing trial of the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
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They also broke two police rifles when law enforcement officials tried to resist the demonstrators, police claimed.
Soon after his arrest, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said Gayeshwar had been arrested on “specific” charges.