Selima Rahman secures bail in 22 cases

Staff Correspondent: BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman secured bail in 22 separate cases filed against her with different police stations in the capital on the charge of carrying out sabotage in 2015.

Earlier in the day, the BNP vice-chairman first surrendered before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate and later before the Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge courts with bail prayer through her lawyer.

Of the total 23 cases filed against her, the trial of 14 cases are undergoing at Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate courts. Of the cases, four were filed with Paltan Police Station, two each in Motijheel and Khilgaon, three in Mugda and one each in Gulshan, Jatrabari and Lalbagh Police Stations.

Besides, nine more cases were also filed with Paltan, Motijheel, Khilgaon, Mugda and Jatrabari Police Stations and trial of the cases are undergoing at different Metropolitan Session Judge courts.

The cases were filed against Selima during the anti-government agitation by BNP-led 20-party alliance on the charge of sabotage. Arrest warrant was also issued against her in several cases.

risingbd/DHAKA/Apr 24, 2017/Mamun Khan/Amirul