Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Monday extended bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other four leaders till June 17.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Anwar Sadat passed the
order after Fakhrul and four others appear to the court seeking bail extension.
The other four leaders are BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Dhaka City BNP Convener Sadek Hossain Khoka, Member – Secretary of the party Abdus Salam and President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel. The court also directed the BNP leaders to appear in the court on the day.
They were accused in two cases for vandalizing and torching vehicles, creating violence and killing during hartal (shutdown) on December 24 last year.
Mirza Fakhrul’s lawyer Zainul Abedin Mejbah confirmed the matter to this correspondent.
