A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case regarding vandalism and assaulting police members in December 2012.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj granted the bail after Fakhrul surrendered before the court.
On September 14, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan issued an arrest warrant against Fakhrul, Nasir Hossain and Mohammad Ali, as they did not appear before the court on the scheduled date.
On January 16, Sub-Inspector Zahid Khan of Kadamtali police station submitted the charge sheet against 61 people, including Fakhrul.
According to the case, the accused blocked Postagola-Narayanganj road at Kadamtali in the capital during a protest programme. They also torched and vandalised vehicles, attacked law enforcers with brickbats and set a fuel tanker on fire.
The charge sheet accuses Fakhrul of provoking the BNP activists to carry out the violence.
