Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday (Thursday) granted bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed for vandalism and torching vehicles during a road blockade programme of the then 18-party alliance in 2012.
Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj granted the bail on a surety of Tk 5,000 after Mirza Fakhrul surrendered to his court on Thursday.
Fakhrul appeared in the court in the afternoon upon his return from Singapore when his counsel Sanaullah Miah filed a petition seeking his bail.
Earlier, on Sunday the CMM Court took cognizance of the charge sheet and issued warrant for the arrest of the BNP leader and two others namely Mohammad Ali and Nasir as they did not appear on the day.
Fakhrul had been in Singapore when the court ordered his arrest. He was not an FIR-listed accused, but his name has been inserted in the charge sheet of the case.
Sub-inspector Abu Arif of Kadamtali Police Station filed the case against 77 identified and 100 to 150 unidentified people on charge of vandalism and torching vehicles on Postagola-Narayanganj highway and Eagle Box Road in the city’s Kadamtali area during the opposition’s road blockade on December 9, 2012.
On January 16, Jahid Khan, Sub-Inspector of the police station and also the Investigation Officer of the case, submitted charge sheet.
A Dhaka court yesterday (Thursday) granted bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed for vandalism and torching vehicles during a road blockade programme of the then 18-party alliance in 2012.
Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir Raj granted the bail on a surety of Tk 5,000 after Mirza Fakhrul surrendered to his court on Thursday.
Fakhrul appeared in the court in the afternoon upon his return from Singapore when his counsel Sanaullah Miah filed a petition seeking his bail.
Earlier, on Sunday the CMM Court took cognizance of the charge sheet and issued warrant for the arrest of the BNP leader and two others namely Mohammad Ali and Nasir as they did not appear on the day.
Fakhrul had been in Singapore when the court ordered his arrest. He was not an FIR-listed accused, but his name has been inserted in the charge sheet of the case.
Sub-inspector Abu Arif of Kadamtali Police Station filed the case against 77 identified and 100 to 150 unidentified people on charge of vandalism and torching vehicles on Postagola-Narayanganj highway and Eagle Box Road in the city’s Kadamtali area during the opposition’s road blockade on December 9, 2012.
On January 16, Jahid Khan, Sub-Inspector of the police station and also the Investigation Officer of the case, submitted charge sheet.
