3 BNP leaders get bail

A Dhaka court has granted bail to three lawyers and BNP leaders in two separate cases filed with Ramna Police Station on charges of attack and vandalism on the chief justice’s residence as well as sabotage.

They are BNP Vice Chairmen Zainul Abedin and Nitai Roy Chowdhury and Joint Secretary General Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon.

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Judge Asaduzzaman granted the bail after they surrendered and applied for bail in the court.

Earlier on 7 November, the High Court granted three weeks’ anticipatory bail to the three accused lawyers in the cases regarding the attack on the official residence of the chief justice during the BNP’s grand rally on 28 October.