Fakhrul, Abbas freed from jail after 30-day
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir (left) and standing committee member Mirza Abbas (right).
Bangladesh desk; Dhaka Central Jail Authorities on Monday afternoon freed detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas from the jail for six months after scrutinising the documents of their bails granted by the High Court and the Appellate Division’s order that upheld their bails.
Dhaka Central Jail’s senior superintendent Subhash Kumar Ghosh said that they released the two opposition senior leaders at about 5:30PM on Monday.
The jail authorities took about an hour to scrutinise the bail orders of the two opposition leaders as the bail release order reached to Dhaka Central Jail at about 4:30pm from the Dhaka CMM court.
The leaders and activists of the party received the two senior leaders at the jail gate in Keraniganj, outskirt of the capital, where they have been detained for 32 days in a case over a clash between police and BNP activists in the capital’s Naya Paltan on December 7, 2022 ahead of the party’s mass rally scheduled for December 10, 2022.
The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital in early hours of December 9 stating that they would be interrogated in the custody.
The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrates’ court sent them in the jail on the same days after their bail pleas were rejected in four occasions between December 9, 2022 and December 23, 2022.
On January 4, the bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan granted six-month bail to Mirza Fakhrul, 74, and Abbas, 71, on humanitarian grounds as they had been suffering from various old-age complications.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on January 8 upheld the bail orders of Fakhrul and Abbas after dispsosing of a government’ seeking stay on the bail stating that the High Court committed wrong in granting them bail as their bail prayers were kept pending for hearing by the Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge on January 26.
Fakhrul and Abbas were implicated in the case filed by the police against 476 leaders and activists of the party.
Over 200 leaders of the party were arrested in the case.
