Ctg BCL leader Rony gets bail for 3 months

The High Court on Tuesday extended three months’ bail to Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Chittagong city unit general secretary Nurul Azim Rony, who was arrested with firearms near a polling centre during the upazila parishad elections.

Earlier on June 13, the court granted six months’ interim bail to Rony until submission of a police report. As police submitted the report on June 19, the term of his bail expired.

Later, his lawyer S M Rezaul Karim appealed for extension of bail on Monday.

After hearing, a High Court bench of justice Kamrul Islam Siddiqi and Amir Hossain, passed the order.‘There is no legal bar to release Rony from jail following the order,’ BCL leader’s attorney SM Rezaul Karim said.

On May 7, a mobile court jailed BCL general secretary of Chittagong city Rony for two years for carrying an illegal firearm and vote rigging during Union Parishad election in Chittagong’s Hathazari upazila in Chittagong.