Fakhrul surrenders before court, gets bail

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has obtained bail in a case over violence after surrendering before a court on his return to the country.

The BNP leader on Thursday sought the bail after surrendering before the court of Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj. 

The court granted the bail after the hearing.

The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Yunus Khan had issued an arrest warrant against the BNP leader on last Sunday in connection with a case filed with the capital’s Kadamtali Police Station over vandalism during BNP’s agitation programme in December 2012.

Fakhrul arrived at Dhaka on a Thai Airways flight from Singapire around 11 am.

After getting the bail he went to United Hospital to see his ailing mother Fatema Amin.

Fakhrul’s lawyer Sanaullah Miah told the bdnews24.com that the BNP leader’s name did not initially figure in the FIR of the Kadamtali police station case.  His name was included in the subsequent charge sheet.

He has been an accused in several cases filed over vandalising of vehicles, obstructing law enforcers from carrying out their duties and so on and so forth.