Hannan Shah and his son Shah Rezaul Hannan walked to freedom at around 4:00pm, two months and eight days after they were arrested from their Old DOHS residence at Mohakhali in the capital in an extortion case filed by Kapasia Awami League General Secretary Ruhul Amin with the Kapasia Police Station.

Hannan Shah's wife, Nahid Hannan, son Shah Riazul Hannan and many party leaders and workers were present at the jail gate to receive them.

When he was detained, the way the investigators treated him went against the court directives, Hannan Shah said after his release from detention.

"Charge was framed against me on May 15 although I was arrested on May 14. And more surprising is that the police station filed FIR (first information report) on May 13," Hannan Shah told the journalists at his residence.

Hannan Shah and Rezaul, who were accused in three and four more cases later, also secured bails in those cases from the High Court.

Earlier on July 16 a vacation bench of the High Court, upon a petition, granted the ad interim bail to Hannan Shah and his son. But their release was delayed for scrutinising the bail bonds and its delayed arrival to the authorities concerned.

Coming out of jail, Hannan Shah, who had been vocal in defence of his beleaguered party chief and former premier Khaleda Zia, told the newsmen that he along with his son was detained in a conspiratorial case.

He was released through the legal process, not by compromising with anyone, he said when asked about his political stand.

The question of changing the political stand does not arise, he said.

Referring to Sheikh Hasina's arrest, he said, "My leader [Khaleda Zia] has demanded Hasina's release and I think she has done the right thing."

"We, the politicians, should be sympathetic to one another and forget the confrontational policy of the past days," he said.

He will decide his next work after talking to Khaleda, he added.