Fakhrul, Khasru get bail

A Dhaka court has granted bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tahmina Haque passed the order on Wednesday.

Their lawyers submitted an application, seeking bail on grounds that Fakhrul is elderly and both Fakhrul and Khasru have been suffering from different ailments.

Moreover, the charges brought against them are false, and fabricated. They were implicated in the case just for political harassment, the lawyers added.

After hearing both sides, the magistrate granted them bail till submission of police report upon a bond of Tk 10,000 with two guarantors.

They were arrested in a case filed over assaulting law enforcers in the capital on October 28 last year.