Staff Reporter :BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was released on bail from prison on Tuesday evening, over six months after his arrest.Last evening, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir walked out of the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after his release order reached the jail authorities in the afternoon. Sorbottom Chakma, deputy jailor at Dhaka Central Jail, reached the BSMMU around 6:30pm with the release order said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a media wing staff of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Coming out of the prison cell, Fakhrul expressed his gratitude to the media for making reports on his detention. “I am sick. I have been suffering from cardiac ailments. I like to thank the Almighty Allah that I have been released from jail even it may be for a while,” he said adding that he will go abroad for treatment.Fakhrul’s family members, including his wife, and some BNP leaders and activists received the BNP leader at the hospital gate. On June 13, BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul was admitted to the BSMMU following a High Court order.On Monday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the High Court order that granted bail to BNP leader in three violence cases for six weeks. The SC came up with the order after receiving a report from a five-member medical team, comprising two surgeons of vascular surgery, a respiratory medicine specialist, a medicine specialist and a cardiologist, formed by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) authorities on the health condition of the BNP leader. The bench also asked Fakhrul to surrender before a lower court after six weeks. Mirza Fakhrul’s lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain told the reporters that the bench stayed the HC order on his client’s bail in the cases for six weeks. Based on the findings of a health report of Fakhrul, which the five-member medical team submitted at 3pm on Sunday (July 12), the court gave the order upholding the BNP leader’s HC bail, said state lawyers. Earlier on July 9, the court directed the BSMMU authorities to form a five-member medical board to conduct Mirza Fakhrul’s treatment and submit a report on his physical condition by 3:00 pm on July 12.On June 18, the High Court granted bail to the BNP leader in the three cases for violence.Two of the cases were filed with Paltan Police Station while another with Motijheel Police Station.On April 16, Mirza Fakhrul secured six months’ bail from HC in another case filed with Paltan Police Station on January 4 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 January 6, plain-clothes police picked up Fakhrul as he came out of the Jatiya Press Club after nearly 25 hours of stay there following BNP’s announcement to observe January-5 as ‘Democracy Killing Day’, protesting the 10th parliamentary polls held on the day.
