Appellate Division upholds bail of Fakhrul, Abbas

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the bail of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over the clash between police and BNP men at Nayapaltan in the capital. 

A four-member appellate bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Sunday.

The Appellate Division also ordered the High Court to dispose the rule issued in this regard. 

Attorney General Abu Mohammad Amin Uddin took part in the hearing on behalf of the state. The lawyers of Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas were also present.  

Earlier on January 3, the High Court granted six-month interim bail to Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas in the case. The HC also issued a four-week rule seeking as to why the BNP leaders will not be granted a permanent bail.

On January 4, the state filed a petition to the Appellate Division for a stay order on the bail.

On January 8, the chamber judge of the Supreme Court stayed their bail and sent the state’s petition to its full bench for a hearing of the matter on January 8.

On December 8 last year, the detectives detained Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas from their respective homes in the capital.

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.