Hearing on Fakhrul's bail petitions Dec 24

A Dhaka court yesterday fixed December 24 for hearing the bail petitions of BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in two cases filed against him for torching vehicles during the December 9 road blockade.
The cases were filed with Paltan and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Stations following the BNP-led 18-party alliance's countrywide road blockade programme.
Police arrested Fakhrul on December 10.
Judge (vacation) Md Helal Uddin of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court yesterday fixed the hearing date after Fakhrul's lawyers submitted two separate bail petitions for him against a lower court order that earlier rejected his bail in the two cases.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on December 11 rejected Fakhrul's bail petitions and ordered the authorities concerned to send him to jail.
During the incumbent government's tenure, Fakhrul was sent to jail two times.
He was first sent to jail on May 15 this year in an arson case. He was released after the High Court granted him bail in the case.