The High Court yesterday granted bail to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of BNP, in three vandalism and arson cases. As a result, now there is no bar to his release from jail.
These were the three last cases for which he has has been kept in prison. He secured bail in a total of seven cases filed after December 2014.
Yesterday, the HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Md Khasruzzaman granted the bail in response to three separate petitions filed on the ground of illness and also as there were no specific allegations that he was directly involved in the vandalism and arson.
After hearing, the court also issued separate rules upon the government to explain in four weeks why the BNP leader should not be granted regular bail in the three cases. The court granted him ad-interim bail in the cases unitl disposal of the rule. Fakhrul secured bail in four other cases in April and June.
“He has been made accused in total 89 cases with the last seven since 2012 and he got bail from the High Court and lower court in all the cases on different times,” Sagir Hossain Leon, Fakhrul’s lawyer said.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is currently undergoing treatment at the BSMMU hospital.
He was arrested on January 6 after he came out following a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka. He was later shown arrested in seven arson and vandalism cases.
Of the cases, one was filed with the Paltan police station on January 4 last year for torching bus and two cases were filed with the same police station on January 6 on charges of torching bus and motorbike.
As the lower court rejected him bail these cases, he went to the HC on June 14 and yesterday he was granted bail. The HC on April 16 granted him six months’ interim bail in a Paltan police station case filed for torching vehicles and blasting cocktails.
This BNP leader was also granted bail from the HC in two Paltan and one Motijheel police station case on June 18.
