7 BNP leaders get HC bail
The High Court yesterday granted bail to seven top BNP leaders, including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in nine cases for different periods.
The six others are Mirza Abbas, Aman Ullah Aman, Goyeswar Chandra Roy, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Abdus Salam and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.
The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the bail orders after hearing bail petitions filed by the accused.
The HC granted anticipatory bail to Mirza Fakhrul Islam for eight weeks in a case filed with Ramna Police Station on January 7 on charge of provoking terrorism during the opposition's anti-government agitations, Sagir Hossain Leon, a lawyer for the petitioners, told The Daily Star.
On Thursday, the HC directed the law enforcers not to arrest or harass Mirza Fakhrul in three cases filed with Shahbagh and Ramna police stations in connection with arson attacks on buses in the capital's Bangla Motor, Shahbagh and Malibagh areas in November and December last year. Those attacks left several people dead and some others injured.
Six other leaders are accused in most of these four cases, Sagir said, adding that Mirza Abbas and Goyeswar Chandra Roy got anticipatory bail in all the four cases for eight weeks and four weeks respectively.
Aman Ullah Aman and Abdus Salam secured anticipatory bail in the four cases for eight weeks. Aman also got anticipatory bail in five other cases filed with police stations in Keraniganj and Savar.
Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury got bail in two cases recently filed in Chittagong for creating violence.
The accused leaders, except for Mahbub Uddin Khokon, appeared before the HC bench yesterday for bail in the cases, Deputy Attorney General Md Salim told this correspondent.
Earlier in the day, the same HC bench granted a six-month bail to BNP Joint Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon in three cases, including the one for Bangla Motor arson attack.
Following the HC order, there is no legal bar to Khokon's release, said barrister AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a counsel for the BNP leader.
Also the secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association, Khokon filed the bail petitions through his lawyer on Sunday.
Of the four cases, the first one was filed for killing a police during a Hefajat-e Islam rally at Motijheel on May 5 last year, while the second for blasting crude bombs at Kamalapur during an opposition-sponsored demonstration on November 5.
The third case was lodged for an arson attack on a police requisitioned bus at Bangla Motor that left a policeman killed on December 25.
A day after the Bangla Motors arson attack, detectives arrested Khokon in front of Matshya Bhaban in the capital.
As many as 20 central leaders of the BNP and five top leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Jatiyatabadi Swechhasebak Dal are now behind bars in different cases.
DON'T HARASS MIR NASIR: HC
The HC yesterday directed the government not to harass or show BNP leader Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin arrested in any case “without the due process of law”.
The HC came up with the order following a writ petition filed by the accused. The order means that police cannot implicate or show Nasiruddin arrested in any more cases if his name is not mentioned in the first information report (FIR) of the case and if there is no specific allegation or arrest order against him, his lawyer Ruhul Quddus Kazal told The Daily Star.
Police have already shown Nasiruddin arrested in three cases. The BNP leader has secured bail in two cases.
Nasiruddin was arrested on November 10 last year.
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