Mirza Fakhrul, Amir Khasru freed from jail

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury have been released from jail.

They walked out of Keraniganj Central Jail in Dhaka around 3:45 on Thursday, said BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan.

Earlier on Wednesday, Acting Judge Faisal Atiq Bin Kader of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judges' Court granted bail to them in a case filed with Ramna Police Station over the alleged attack on the residence of the chief justice.

With this, the two senior BNP leaders got bail in all cases filed over the incident.

Eleven cases were filed against Mirza Fakhrul and 10 against Amir Khasru over the clashes between police and BNP men and alleged attacks on different establishments, including the residence of the chief justice, around BNP's October 28 grand rally in the capital's Nayapaltan area.

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