Fakhrul gets bail in bomb blast case

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 15 others in a bomb blast case.
Shahbagh police filed the case against 29 BNP men on charges of aiding and abetting the bombings inside the Secretariat during the opposition-called hartal on April 29 last year.
Judge AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order after the accused appeared before it and sought bail yesterday.
Earlier, the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court had transferred the case to the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court for a quick disposal.
According to the rules, when a case is transferred to a new court, the accused has to secure fresh bail from the new one.
So, Fakhrul and the 15 other accused, who had earlier secured bail from the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, submitted bail petitions to the court, which is now dealing with the case.
The defence also sought time for hearing on charge framing in the case. And the court fixed October 25 for the next hearing.
Nine other accused in the case have already got bail from the same court while the remaining four accused, including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed and Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu, did not file bail petitions and remained absent from the court for different reasons.