Erfan Salim, son of Awami League lawmaker Haji Md Salim, walked out of jail yesterday after around six months.

He left Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 4:50pm, Mohiuddin Mahmud Belal, personal secretary to Haji Md Salim, told The Daily Star.

Subhash Kumar Ghosh, senior jail superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, said they released Erfan upon receiving the court's order and after completing formalities.

The development came after Supreme Court on April 25 upheld a High Court bail of Erfan in a case filed over attacking a navy officer in October last year.

There was no legal bar for Erfan to get released from jail following the apex court order, Erfan's lawyer Sayed Ahmed Raza said after the verdict.

Erfan was arrested after a case was filed against him in connection with attacking Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy in the capital's Dhanmondi area on October 25 last year.

Earlier, he had been cleared from two cases filed under Narcotics Control Act and Arms Act after investigation officers submitted final reports saying they did not find any evidence against him.

The cases were filed after Rab raided Erfan's Chawkbazar house on October 26 last year, a day after his arrest. Rab claimed to have seized five bottles of foreign liquor and an unlicensed pistol with two bullets.

But Chawkbazar police, which later investigated the cases, submitted final reports in the cases on January 5.

During the Rab drive, Erfan was sentenced by a mobile court of Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam to six months' jail in connection with the recovery of illegal alcohol and another six months for possessing illegal walkie-talkies.

In those cases, Salim secured bail from Additional District Magistrate Court on January 4.