Fakhrul released
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released from prison on bail this evening.
Fakhrul walked out of the Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur around 7:30pm, Sayrul Kabir Khan, a media wing staff of BNP chief Khaleda Zia, told The Daily Star.
Earlier yesterday, the High Court granted him six months' bail in a murder case, clearing the way for his release from jail.
Police filed the case with Ramna Police Station on December 1 last year, a day after an unknown passer-by was killed during an anti-government demonstration by the BNP-led alliance at Malibagh Chowdhurypara in the capital.
On March 16, a Dhaka court sent Fakhrul and two other senior BNP leaders to jail in connection with four cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations on charges of provoking violence and arson attacks on buses during the opposition's agitation in Bangla Motor, Paribagh, Malibagh and Shahbagh areas.
The cases were filed on different dates in November and December and the first week of January this year.
The litigations were later changed to murder cases when seven victims of the incidents, including a policeman, had died.
Some 19 cases were filed against the BNP acting secretary general on various allegations during the Awami League-led government's previous tenure.
With the latest one, Fakhrul got interim bail in all the cases, said another lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon.
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