UNB, Gazipur :Nearly one month into his arrest, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was freed from jail on bail on Tuesday.Fakhrul walked out of the part-2 of Kashimpur Central Jail at around 7:45pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said jail sources. BNP leaders and activists, including BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan, BNP-backed Kaliakoir municipal mayor Mujibur Rahman and Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum, received the BNP leader at the jail gate.On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld the High Court order granting three months’ bail to Mirza Fakhrul in three arson cases. The government filed the petition with the SC on November 26 challenging the HC order granting three months’ bail to the BNP leader in the three cases.After primary hearing of the petition, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique sent it to the regular bench of the division fixing November 30 for the next hearing.Earlier, on November 24, the HC granted three months’ bail to Fakhrul in three vandalism cases. Two of the cases were filed with Paltan Police Station, while another with Motijheel Police Station.On 16 April, Mirza Fakhrul secured six months’ bail from the HC in another case filed with Paltan Police Station on 4 January for allegedly carrying out arson attack and vandalism.On the same day, the court issued a rule asking the authorities concerned why Fakhrul should not be given bail in three other cases. On November 3, Mirza Fakhrul was sent to jail again after he surrendered before a court here in three arson cases.
