The Dhaka Central Jail authorities on Tuesday released acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on bail on recipient of the Supreme Court’s order that granted six weeks’ bail to avail his ‘advanced medical treatment’.
Deputy jailor Surbattam Dewan told New Age Fakhrul was freed from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital around 7:10pm where he was admitted on June 13 with carotid artery problem on an order issued by the High Court on June 9.
On Monday, the Appellate Division granted Fakhrul’s interim bail following a recommendation, made by five specialized doctors of the BSMMU, that the patient should ‘go to an advanced centre where intervention for carotid lesions may be possible.’
When enough plaque builds up to reduce or disturb blood flow through one’s carotid arteries, physicians call this problem carotid artery disease. Carotid artery disease is a serious health problem because it can cause a stroke.
Fakhrul was freed on bail more than six months after he was arrested from the National Press Club premises on January 6.
He was implicated in the seven cases.
The police had alleged that he ordered, abetted and instigated unidentified party men to explode several crude bombs, vandalise five buses and a police motorbike and set them on fire at seven places in the capital on the eve of January 5, the day that BNP had observed as Democracy Killing Day.
Source: New Age
