Court Correspondent :
Expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat was released from jail on bail on Wednesday afternoon, nearly two-and-half years after he was arrested from Cumilla in an anti-casino drive.
Samrat was released around 4:30 pm (Wednesday) from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
(BSMMU) where he was being treated for his illness, Mahbubul Islam, Jailor of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, said. However, Samrat was not supposed to go home straight now due to ongoing treatment.
Meanwhile, BSMMU Director (Hospital) Brigadier General Md Nazrul Islam said ‘Samrat is still unwell and he will not be discharged from the hospital today’ (Wednesday). However, if his family members want to shift him elsewhere, decision will be taken on Thursday upon consulting with the physicians treating him, he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Samrat got ad-interim bail in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore and channeling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.
With Wednesday’s order, he was granted bail in all six cases filed against him and there is no legal bar for his release from jail, said his lawyer Gazi Zillur Rahman.
