A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Khaleda Zia’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo and BNP Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman in separate two cases.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Maruf Hossain passed the order after Barrister Rafiq-ul Haque submitted a bail petition for Mintoo in a case filed with Motijheel police station centring the Hefazat-e-Islam violence last year.
The defence counsel also petitioned for cancellation of his 10-day remand, the hearing of which was fixed on January 21.
Another Defence Counsel Md Sanaullah Miah told the Dhaka Tribune Mintoo would not be released from jail despite his bail as he was accused in three other cases.
On January 13, the High Court asked the law enforcement agencies not to show Abdul Awal Mintoo arrest or harass him without following due legal process.
Police arrested Mintoo from in front of Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence on November 9.
BNP Vice-Chairman Selima Rahman was granted bail in the case filed with Ramna police station for setting off crude bombs on January 4 in front of the office of Police Commissioner Maruf Hossain in Shahbagh.
Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman passed the order.
Plain-clothes police picked up Selima from her Gulshan residence on January 7.
Another Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court rejected both bail and remand prayers and ordered the investigation officer to interrogate BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka in front of jail gate in five working days.
Khoka was picked up by Rab and DB police from the capital’s Uttara on December 4 last year.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal central leader Habibur Rashid Habib was yesterday placed on a five-day fresh remand in several cases filed for creating anarchy, violence and vandalising vehicles in the city on different dates.
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court allowed the remand when the investigation officers produced him before the court with a 64-day remand prayer in the cases filed with Shobujbagh and Paltan police stations in the city.
Habib’s counsel Md Sanaullah Miah said police showed the Chhatra Dal leader arrest in 36 cases after he was detained on November 17.
Earlier, he was placed on a 30-day remand in 18 other cases, he added.
Plain-clothes police arrested Habib from the city’s Shantinagar area on November 17 last year.
