Staff Reporter :The High Court here on Monday granted six months’ ad interim bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a murder case filed with Ramna police station.The HC bench comprising Justice Md Borhanuddin and Justice K M Kamrul Kader passed the order upon a plea for Fakhrul’s bail.The court also issued a rule upon the governmentto explain why Fakhrul should not be granted permanent bail in the case and asked a reply to the rule in four weeks.”Now there is no legal bar to release Fakhrul from jail,” said his lawyer Adv Sagir Hosssain Lyon.On November 30 last year, Ramna police station filed a case against 50-60 unidentified persons in connection with the killing of one Habibur Rahman in a petrol-bomb attack on a bus on the VIP road at Malibagh in the capital.Although Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s name was not among those alleged in the FIR of the case, his name was later included as an instigator to the incident. Mirza Fakhrul is now in jail custody in connection with the case.
