HC bail for 5 BNP leaders cancelled

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped the High Court orders that had granted anticipatory bail to five BNP leaders including its acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in four cases.
The five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain gave the orders after the government had filed five appeals against the HC orders.
The four other leaders are Mirza Abbas, Amanullah Aman, Abdus Salam and Obaidul Haque Nasir.
Because of the SC orders, the accused will now have to surrender before a trial court, Deputy Attorney General Suhrawardy told The Daily Star.
The court would decide whether it would grant them bail in the cases, he added.
On January 20, the HC granted the BNP leaders anticipatory bail for eight weeks in the four cases filed with Ramna and Shahbagh police stations on charges of provoking terrorism and arson attacks on buses during the opposition's agitation in the capital's Bangla Motor, Shahbagh and Malibagh areas.
Several people were killed and many injured during the attacks in November and December last year.
Meanwhile, the HC yesterday granted anticipatory bail to Mirza Abbas, Amanullah Aman and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy for six weeks in a murder case.
The case was filed after a person was killed in Malibagh during a demonstration centring the BNP's March for Democracy on December 29 last.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted the three leaders bail after hearing on their bail petitions.