The High Court granted bail to five BNP leaders yesterday, having detained them for their involvement in various cases lodged during recent anti-government protests earlier.
BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Mirza Abbas and Aman Ullah Aman were freed on anticipatory bail for different periods by the bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader.
The same bench granted six months’ ad-interim bail to jailed BNP Joint Secretary Mahbub Uddin Khokon in each of the three cases against him, clearing the way for his release, his lawyer AJ Mohammad Ali said. Khokon was shown arrested in two cases of arson filed with Motijheel and Ramna police stations and one case for instigating Hefazat-e-Islam.
The court also gave bail to Mirza Fakhrul for eight weeks in three cases by modifying an earlier order that had directed law enforcers to refrain from arresting or harassing the BNP leader in new cases without due process, his lawyer Bodruddoza Badal told the Dhaka Tribune.
“The HC bench that passed the order on Thursday did not have the jurisdiction to pass such an order,” Badal said, adding that “The bench that deals with writ petitions has that jurisdiction.”
