The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail to former BNP state minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milan for four months in an extortion case filed in Chandpur.
One Manik Hossain of Naukura village under Kachua upazila in Chandpur filed the case with Kachua Police Station on November 18 this year.
The case accused Milan and 10 others of claiming Tk 5 lakh as toll from Manik and snatching Tk 12,500 and a mobile set from him on October 2, 2001.
Milan filed a petition with the HC on Sunday and appeared before the HC yesterday seeking bail in the case.
After hearing the petition, the HC bench of Justice Siddiqur Rahman Miah and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq granted the bail.