Moudud, Bulu, Anee walk out of jail

Moudud Ahmed, Barkatullah Bulu and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee

BNP lawmakers Moudud Ahmed, Barkatullah Bulu and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee were freed from jails Monday morning.

Moudud and Anee were kept at Kahimpur jail 1 and 2 respectively while Bulu at Kashimpur High-Security Prison, jail sources said.

They walked out from the jails between 11:00am and 11:30am Monday, a day after they obtained bail in seven vandalism cases.

The Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge in Dhaka on Sunday granted them bail, considering their parliament membership.

But in the same cases, the court denied bail to seven other senior BNP leaders, including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, saying “charges brought against them were primarily proved”.

Irked by the court order, BNP announced a 36-hour countrywide shutdown from Tuesday.

Moudud, who is also a member of BNP’s national standing committee, Bulu and Anee were granted the bails two weeks after they landed in jail.

They were denied the bails on April 7 and sent to jail as they surrendered to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on expiry of their four-week bails granted by the High Court.

According to the charges, the BNP leaders were involved in torching vehicles, assaulting police and obstructing the work of the cops during the opposition’s agitation programmes.

Police filed the cases with Paltan, Ramna and Shahjahanpur police stations.