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Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Tuesday fixed February 14 for hearing on bail petitions of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed with Ramna police station over vandalising the chief justice residence on October 28 last year.
Judge Md Asaduzzaman of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions’ judge court set the day for hearing after defence lawyers submitted petitions seeking bail for Fakhrul and Khasru in the case.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court granted bail for BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas in three more cases.
Fakhrul and Khasru will be freed from jail if they get bail in the case, as they are on bail in all other cases filed against them, said defence lawyer Syed Zainul Abedin Mesbah.
On February 1 and January 24, the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court rejected the bail petitions of Fakhrul and Khasru, respectively, in the case.
Fakhrul’s bail has been rejected a total of four times by the High Court and lower courts on different occasions in the case, while Khasru’s bail has been rejected three times by the High Court and lower courts.
Fakhrul is accused in 11 cases filed over clashes involving the BNP’s October 28 grand rally in Dhaka, while Khasru is accused in 10 cases.
Fakhrul has already been granted bail in 10 out of 11 cases and Khasru in nine out of 10 cases filed with Paltan and Ramna police stations over the BNP’s October 28 grand rally.
The charges in the cases include the killing of a police constable, illegal gatherings on the street, vandalising vehicles, snatching a police weapon, damaging properties, assaulting police personnel, and preventing them from discharging their duties.
On October 29, Fakhrul was arrested from his Gulshan house, while Khasru was also arrested from his Gulshan residence on November 3, last year, in connection with the case filed over the attack on the residence of the chief justice.
Meanwhile, Dhaka’s additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sultan Sohag Uddin on Tuesday granted Abbas bail in three cases filed with Shahjahanpur, Paltan, and Ramna police stations in the capital on charges of violence.
Earlier on Monday, the same court granted bail to him in six other cases after hearing his bail petitions submitted by his lawyer, Mohi Uddin Chowdhury.
With this, Mirza Abbas got bail in nine out of 11 cases filed against him over the clashes on October 28 during BNP’s grand rally at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.
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