Published on 10:33 AM, November 12, 2018

Amir Khasru freed from Chattogram jail on bail

BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury. File photo

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury was released on bail from Chattogram Central Jail in a case filed under the ICT Act this morning.

He walked out of the jail at 7:30am, said Proshanto Kumar Banik, senior jailer of the jail.

The bail order reached the jail on Sunday.

Earlier on November 4, The High Court granted bail to Khasru in the case.

Chattogram city unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) acting general secretary Zakaria Dastagir filed the case under sections 57 (2) of ICT Act and 15 (3) of the Special Powers Act with Kotwali police station on August 4.

The case was filed after a reported audio clip of telephonic conversation between the BNP leader and an unknown boy for intensifying the student movement, erupted after the death of two students in a road accident in the capital, went viral on Facebook and YouTube.