Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas released from Keraniganj jail

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas have been released from the central jail in Keraniganj. 

They walked out of the jail at 5:50pm on Monday.

Jakir Hossain Jewel, the lawyer of the BNP leaders, confirmed the matter to Jago News.  

Earlier on Sunday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the bail of Mirza Fakhrul and 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.

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

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.