Shafiul Alam Pradhan, 21 others get bail in cases of violence

The High Court yesterday granted a month's anticipatory bail to Jatiya Gonotantrik Party President Shafiul Alam Pradhan and 21 activists of 12 Islamist parties in five separate criminal cases.
Police filed the cases accusing them of obstructing the police in discharging their duties, vandalising and torching vehicles and spreading panic in the capital, during clashes with law enforcers on September 22 and 23.
The Islamist parties had called hartal on Sunday to protest an anti-Islamic film and cartoon demeaning Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) made abroad.