No bar to release Fakhrul, Khasru

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 over the attack on the residence of the chief justice during the BNP-police clash on October 28 last year.

As a result of this order, there is no legal bar for their release from prison.

Acting Judge Faisal Atiq Bin Kader of Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court passed the order after hearing in the case on Wednesday (February 14).

Earlier, the High Court and lower courts rejected the bail petitions of Fakhrul and Khasru a total of four times on different occasions in this case.

However, Fakhrul was granted bail in 10 other cases filed with Ramna and Paltan police stations over political violence on October 28.

Of the cases, six were filed with Paltan Model Police Station, while the rest were filed with Ramna Model Police Station.

The charges in the cases include killing of a police constable, illegal gathering on the street, vandalising vehicles, rioting, snatching a police weapon, damaging properties, assaulting police personnel and preventing them from discharging their duties.

On October 29, Fakhrul was arrested in a case filed with Ramna Police Station over the attack on the residence of the chief justice.

On November 3 last year, detectives detained Khasru from the capital’s Gulshan area. Later in the day, he was placed on a six-day remand in a case filed over the death of a police constable in a clash during the party’s grand rally on October 28 last year. He was later sent to jail.