Govt blocks Fakhrul's release
The government has again moved three separate petitions against the High Court orders that granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases.
The government filed the petitions with the Supreme Court yesterday, seeking stay on the HC orders that granted bail to Fakhrul in three vandalism and arson cases.
Investigations into the charges might be hampered if Fakhrul got bail, the government argued in the petitions.
The HC granted him bail on June 21 in the cases filed with Paltan police on January 4, 5 and 7 under the Explosive Substances Act.
After a brief hearing yesterday, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique sent the stay petitions to its full bench for hearing on July 2.
Earlier on Sunday, the Appellate Division upheld the HC orders of June 18 that granted bail to Fakhrul, who is now undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, in three other vandalism and arson cases.
A four-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after disposing of three petitions that had sought a stay on the June 18 HC orders.
The government filed the petitions on June 21. The next day the SC chamber judge sent the pleas to the full bench for hearing.
In its order, the SC on Sunday said Fakhrul would remain on bail until police submitted its probe report to a lower court, which is hearing the three cases against him.
The SC also ordered the BNP acting secretary general to surrender before the lower court the day the law enforcers would submit their report in any of the cases.
Of the three cases, two were filed with Paltan police on December 28 last year and January 4 this year. The other case was lodged with Motijheel police on January 6.
Asked if Fakhrul would get released from jail, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday told The Daily Star that the defence should wait for the SC order on the government's stay petitions.
Sagir Hossain Leon, a lawyer for Fakhrul, told this correspondent that there was no legal bar on his client's release from jail since the SC had not stayed the HC bail orders.
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