Violence, Sedition Cases: 74 BNP activists get anticipatory bail

The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail till September 26 to total 74 BNP leaders and activists including former state minister Aman Ullah Aman and former Rajshahi city mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu in two cases.

Aman Ullah, Tabith Awal and 68 others obtained bail in a case filed on charges of assaulting and injuring police personnel and damaging property in a clash when BNP placed wreaths at the grave of party founder Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka's Chandrima Udyan on August 17.

Mizanur Rahman and three others got bail in a sedition case filed on March 16 for "making a hint that another incident like 1975 could occur", their lawyer Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal told The Daily Star.

The HC asked the accused BNP men to surrender to the trial courts concerned by September 26 in the cases.

The HC bench of Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan granted the bail after hearing several separate petitions filed by the accused BNP leaders and activists.

The accused appeared before the HC bench for bail.

AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, another lawyer for the accused, said the HC granted them bail on the grounds that there are no specific allegations against them and the cases were filed from malafide intention to politically harass them.

Lawyer AJ Mohammad Ali appeared for Mizanur Rahman Minu and three others in the sedition case filed with a Rajshahi court.