HC grants bail to 4 BNP leaders
The High Court yesterday granted bail to four BNP leaders for different periods in arson attack and vandalism cases.
They are Moudud Ahmed, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed.
Moudud, Khoka and Hafiz got bail for six months while Mahbub till disposal of an HC rule. In the rule, the court asked the government to explain why Mahbub should not be granted regular bail in the case filed against him.
Now there is no legal bar to the release of Moudud, Mahbub and Hafiz as they have secured bail in all the cases filed against them, AKM Ehsanur Rahman, M Masud Rana and Saqeb Mahbub, lawyers for the BNP leaders, told The Daily Star.
However, Khoka will not get released now as he stands accused in other cases, Saqeb Mahbub added. The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted ad interim bail to Moudud, a BNP standing committee member, in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The ACC lodged the case on December 17 last year on charges of grabbing an abandoned public property at Gulshan in the capital.
On the other hand, Khandker Mahbub, an adviser of the BNP chairperson, was granted ad interim bail in a case filed with Ramna Police Station on March 2 last year in connection with blasting bombs, arson attacks and preventing police from discharging their duties during an anti-government demonstration of the BNP-led 18-party alliance.
So far, Moudud has been shown arrested in six cases while Mahbub in two cases.
Following separate bail petitions, the same HC bench yesterday granted bail to Khoka and Hafiz for six months in different arson attack and vandalism cases.
Khoka got bail in six cases and Hafiz obtained bail in three cases, Deputy Attorney General Khondker Diliruzzaman told The Daily Star.
In the last three months, at least 28 central BNP leaders, including standing committee members, were arrested by the law enforcers.
Seven of them have so far been freed.
Of the arrestees, there are six cases against BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed and five cases each against its two other standing committee members MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia.
Charge Sheet Against Fakhrul
Detectives yesterday pressed charges against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 62 others in connection with a case filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in the capital for torching vehicles and throwing cocktails at police on December 9, 2012.
The charge sheet of the case was submitted to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.
Meanwhile, the High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to Fakhrul for eight weeks in three arson attack cases.
An HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah came up with the orders after Fakhrul appeared before the court and sought bail in the cases.
He was made accused as an instigator in the three arson attack cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations on different dates in November and December last year.
On December 25, Fakhrul was sued for murdering a police constable at Bangla Motor. The policeman was killed as arsonists set fire to a requisitioned police bus.
Of the two other cases, one was filed against the BNP leader for killing four people in a petrol bomb attack at Shahbagh on November 29 and another for killing a man in an arson attack at Malibagh the following day.
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