Bangladesh
Mirza Fakhrul BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul granted bail in 9 cases
Dhaka, Jan 11: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's bail application has been granted by the court in nine separate cases registered at Ramna Model and Paltan Police Stations in the capital.
On Wednesday, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin granted him bail on a bond of Tk 10,000 after the hearing. However, Fakhrul is not being released now as he is in jail in two cases of sabotage of Paltan and Ramna police stations.
On Tuesday, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin approved the request to arrest Mirza Fakhrul. At the same time, he fixed Wednesday for further bail hearing.
Mirza Fakhrul was produced in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka that morning. After that, the court granted the application to arrest him in nine separate cases of Ramana Model and Paltan Police Station. His lawyers then held a bail hearing. After the hearing, the court fixed Wednesday for his further bail hearing.
On December 31, Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim Chowdhury's court fixed January 9 for the arrest and bail hearing in three cases of Fakhrul's Ramana and six of Paltan police stations. Eleven cases were registered against Mirza Fakhrul in connection with the clash of the party's leaders and activists with the police and the attack-vandalism-arson of various establishments around the BNP convention in Nayapaltan on October 28. Out of this there are eight cases in Paltan Police Station and three cases in Ramna Model Police Station.
