LDP leader gets bail

Within hours of his arrest with seven rounds of bullets at the Dhaka airport, Redwan Ahmed, secretary general of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was granted bail after he was produced before a Dhaka court yesterday.

Metropolitan Magistrate Dhiman Chandra Mondol passed the order after airport police produced him before it showing him arrested under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

In the forwarding report, police said that Redwan was arrested after he entered the airport with bullets without permission and he should be confined in jail until the investigation is completed.

On the other hand, defence lawyer submitted a petition seeking bail in the case, saying his client was wrongfully charged.

Airport police arrested Redwan Ahmed with seven rounds of bullets in his luggage which he was carrying without the airport authority’s permission, Noor-e-Alam Siddiqi, director of Aviation Security (AVSEC) at the Dhaka airport, told The Daily Star yesterday.

The bullets were detected while Redwan Ahmed was going through security screening for boarding his flight from Dhaka to Chattogram at 7:30am yesterday, the security official added.

Redwan told the airport authority he was not aware that the bullets were in his bag.