Fakhrul, Abbas secure bail in HC

The High Court has granted interim bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in a case over the clash between police and BNP men at Nayapaltan in the capital.

The HC bench of Justice Md Selim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan on Tuesday passed the order after a hearing.

Earlier, the two senior BNP leaders sought bail in lower courts in four phases in the lawsuit but their pleas were turned down.

The detectives detained Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas from their respective homes in the capital early hours of December 8.

Later, they showed them arrested in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the clash at Nayapaltan.

Allegations of inciting, planning and instructing barbaric attacks on police during the clash were brought against them in the lawsuit.

Earlier on December 7, police and BNP leaders-activists clashed in front of the party's Nayapaltan central office that left one dead and several injured.

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