BNP Acting Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday secured six months of interim bail from the High Court in a bomb blast case filed at the Motijheel Police Station.
Published : 21 Jan 2013, 10:50 AM
The bench of justices Quamrul Islam Siddiqui and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain ordered the bail following a hearing on the case filed over incidents of bomb blasts in the capital during the main opposition’s Dec 9 road blockade programme.
Supreme Court Lawyers Association President and Fakhrul’s lawyer Zainul Abedin told bdnews24.com that the BNP spokesperson would have to wait for his release as he was still behind bars in two more cases.
On Jan 15, Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Zahurul Haque had rejected Fakhrul’s bail petition in the same case. But Fakhrul moved the High Court on Sunday seeking bail and a rule for not showing him arrested in any more cases.
The court had fixed Monday afternoon for the hearing on the plea.
Fakhrul’s lawyer had pleaded for the hearing to take place in the morning but the state asked for time. The court issued the bail in the afternoon after the hearing.
A total of 38 cases were filed over the 18-Party Alliance’s road blockade programme and Fakhrul has been made accused in almost all of them. But his lawyers claimed Fakhrul was being harassed as he has been showed arrested while his name was only mentioned in the first information report in most cases.
Police arrested the BNP leader in front of the party headquarters on Dec 10 and showed him arrested in two cases filed with the Paltan and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police. Fakhrul moved the High Court after the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court and the Sessions Judge’s court denied him bail in these cases.
The High Court on Jan 2 granted him an interim six-month bail. However, police showed him arrested the next day in two more cases filed at the Sutrapur and Motijheel police stations on charges of vandalism and bomb explosions.
The apex court has set Tuesday for hearing on Fakhrul’s petition filed on Sunday seeking a rule for not showing him arrested in any more cases. The petition also sought an interim court order for not detaining the BNP leader in the cases which did not name him in their primary reports.