The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed the High Court order that directed law enforcers not to harass BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir or show him arrested without following due process of law, in three cases.
A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order on Thursday after granting leave to appeal of the state against the High Court order of January 16.
The apex court also fixed February 18 for the appeal’s hearing.
Earlier, the High Court directed law enforcers to refrain from arresting or harassing Mirza Fakhrul in connection with three cases till the submission of police report in those cases.
While passing this order, the bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader told lawyers of the BNP leader that police could arrest Mirza Fakhrul any time after the submission of the charge sheet against him.
The lawyers agreed with the court.
All three cases against Fakhrul were related to killing people by torching buses.
