The Supreme Court has ordered BNP’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to surrender before a trial court by today in three cases of instigating violence.
The court also ordered to dispose a High Court ruling over the senior BNP leader’s bail within two weeks.
The four-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, issued the order yesterday after rejecting three petitions filed by Fakhrul seeking extension of his bail in the cases filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations last year and this year.
“He will have to surrender before a lower court following the Supreme Court’s order,” one of his counsels, Sagir Hossain Leon, told reporters.
Additional Attorney General Murad Reza, who argued for the state at yesterday’s hearing, said the BNP leader had sought more time to surrender on the grounds of illness.
“But we argued that he [Fakhrul] is in the country and is active in politics. There should be no obstacle on his part to surrender.
