The High Court yesterday granted BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir six-month interim bail in a case filed against him with the Ramna police station.
The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the order upon a plea.
The court also issued a rule upon the government to explain why Fakhrul should not be granted permanent bail in the case and asked a reply to the rule in four weeks.
Lawyer Ehsanur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune that Fakhrul had secured bail in all the cases filed against him and there was no bar to release him from jail.
The BNP leader was accused to have instigated a bomb-attack in capital’s Malibagh during pre-election violence in November 30 last year. A case was filed against 50-60 unidentified persons in connection with the killing of Habibur Rahman who died in the attack. Initially the leader’s name was not included in the case FIR but was later added as the instigator of the incident.
Mirza Fakhrul is currently at Kashimpur jail in Gazipur in four cases, including this Ramna police case.
