AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon. Star file photo

The High Court today granted a six-month bail to BNP Joint Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon in three separate cases including Bangla Motor arson attack case.

Following the HC order, there is no legal bar to Khokon's release from jail, Barrister AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a counsel for the BNP leader, told The Daily Star.

The HC bench of Justice Borhan Uddin and KM Kamrul Kader came up with the order after holding hearing on three separate bail petitions in connection with the cases.

Khokon, also the secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association, filed the bail petitions through his lawyer yesterday.

The first case was filed for killing a police during a Hefajat-e Islam rally at Motijheel on May 5 while the second case for blasting crude bombs at Kamalapur during an opposition-sponsored demonstration on November 5. The third case was filed for an arson attack on a police requisitioned bus at Bangla Motor in the capital that left a police man killed on December 25 last year.
One day after the Bangla Motor arson attack, Detective Branch of police arrested Khokon in front of Matsya Bhaban in the capital.