Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order following bail petitions filed by Babunagri’s lawyer Sanaullah Miah.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Hefajat leader, who was arrested by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police from Lalbagh Shahi Mosque in the capital on May 6, was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Birdem Hospital as his condition deteriorated following a leg surgery on Tuesday afternoon.
Babunagri was sent to jail on May 21 after he made a confessional statement before a magistrate of Dhaka CMM court disclosing that activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir tried to use the party’s May 5 Shapla Chattar rally for ousting the government.
A total of 26 cases were filed with Paltan and Motijheel police stations over the violence during the May 5 Dhaka siege programme of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh.
Babunagri was made accused in 11 of the cases, including a police killing one.
Babunagri was placed on a nine-day police remand on May 7 in each of two cases, including the sub-inspector Shahjahan Shikder killing one. The remand over, the Hefajat leader was taken on another 22-day remand in three cases on May 16.
