The government yesterday submitted a petition to the Supreme Court challenging BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s bail in three violence cases granted by the High Court.
Supreme Court’s Chamber Judge Justice Hasan Foez Siddique forwarded the petition to an appeal bench and set July 2 for holding the hearing.
On June 21, the High Court granted Fakhrul bail in the cases and the prosecution filed separate pleas against the court order.
“As the chamber judge issued no stay order on the bail, it is still upheld. The petition has been forwarded to a regular bench which will hear it,” said Fakhrul’s lawyer Sagir Hossain.
On Sunday, the Appellate Division upheld the BNP leader’s bail in three other cases after hearing the prosecution’s plea to stay that. On June 18, the BNP leader secured interim bail from the High Court in those cases.
Fakhrul is now under treatment in the BSMMU prison cell. He was detained on January 6 and was shown arrested in seven cases filed over violence, arson attacks, vandalism and explosion charges.
As the trial court did not give him bail, Fakhrul moved to the High Court with bail petitions.
On June 13, in accordance with a High Court order, he was shifted from Kashimpur jail to the hospital as he fell sick.
