Fakhrul gets HC bail in last case

The High Court yesterday granted six months' bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir 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.
There is no legal bar to freeing Fakhrul following the HC order, barrister AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a counsel for the BNP leader, told The Daily Star.
The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader granted bail after hearing a petition filed by Fakhrul.
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.