Fakhrul’s bail hearing deferred to Nov 22

Hearing on the bail petition of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, now in jail, was not held today in a case filed over the attack on the residence of Chief Justice at Kakrail in the capital on October 28.

Judge (in charge) Faisal Atiq Bin Kader of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court set November 22 for the hearing on the bail petition.

Earlier, at the initial of the bail hearing around 3 pm on Monday (November 20), Public Prosecutor (PP) Abdullah Abu sought time informing the court that he was feeling ill.

At this time, more than a hundred lawyers on behalf of Fakhrul protested the PP’s move and demanded that the court announce a specific date for bail hearing.

On November 2, Fakhrul’s lawyer Syed Zainul Abedin Mesbah submitted a prayer to the court seeking his bail in the case.

On October 29, the Detective Branch of police detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan residence.

Later, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Md Rashidul Alam sent him to jail, rejecting his bail prayer after he was produced before the court in the case.

Mentionable, subversive activities were carried out on the residence of Chief Justice on October 28. Following the incident, a case was filed with Ramna Police Station against 59 BNP leaders and activists including Mirza Fakhrul.