Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Thursday granted bail to Erfan Salim, son of Dhaka-7 MP Haji Mohammad Salim, in a case filed in connection with his attacking Lt Wasif Ahmed Khan of Bangladesh Navy in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area last year.
The HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Md Badruzzaman delivered the verdict after hearing a petition filed by Erfan Salim seeking bail in the case.
The court on January 27 this year issued a ruling over his bail asking the state to explain as to why Erfan Salim should not be granted bail in the case. After hearing the ruling the court delivered the verdict.
There is no legal bar for Erfan Salim to get released from jail following the HC verdict, said advocate Sayeed Ahmed Raza who appeared in the court for Erfan.
The lawyer said, his client has been made accused in five cases. He secured bail in three of those five cases, and police gave final reports exempting him from charges in two other cases, he said.
Deputy Attorney General Dr Md Bashir Ullah who represented the state during the hearing of the bail petition said the state will move an appeal before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court challenging the HC verdict.
Lt Wasif filed the case with Dhanmondi Police Station on October 25 last year, naming four accused including Erfan Salim (37) and three others, AB Siddique Dipu (45), Md Zahid (35) and Md Mizanur Rahman (30) for attacking him on October 25.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion on October 26 conducted a drive at the house of Erfan, a councilor of ward 30 of Dhaka South City Corporation, and arrested him.
