BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury, who police claim had ties to Mossad, was granted bail on Thursday by the High Court in a sedition case filed with the Gulshan police station.
The High Court bench of Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhury and Justice A N M Bashirullah passed the order after holding final hearing on a rule in the case, reports UNB.
According to Deputy Attorney General AKM Moniruzzaman Kabir, the state filed an appeal challenging the bail order. He added that the hearing on the petition will likely be held next Sunday.
Pleading Aslam’s case were Barristers AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Saqeb Mahbub and Sanjid Siddiqui.
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“The case was filed with no evidence at all. It is based entirely on media reports. So far the state has not found any hard evidence connecting him to Mossad or to any other agency,” Barrister Saqeb Mahbub told the Dhaka Tribune.
On May 15 last year, plainclothes police arrested Aslam from the Dhaka after several local newspapers had published reports attaching more than one photograph of the BNP leader's meeting with influential Israeli leader Mendi N Safadi.
Later on May 25, police filed a sedition case against him on charges of involvement in a plot to dethrone the elected government through illegal means.
Subsequently, after Aslam’s bail plea was filed with the High Court, on December 5, it issued a rule asking the government and the others concerned to explain why Aslam should not be granted regular (permanent) bail.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
