BNP leader Hafizuddin freed from jail

BNP Vice Chairman Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed, who was given 21-month jail in a sabotage case, has been released from prison.

He walked out of Keraniganj Central Jail, Dhaka around 7 pm on Sunday, said the party's media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan.

Earlier this morning, Judge Ash-Shams Jaglul Hussein of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court granted bail to him in the case.

On March 5, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury ordered to send Hafizuddin to jail following he had surrendered before the court and sought bail.

On December 28, a Dhaka court sentenced BNP Vice Chairmen Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed, and Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) leader Major (retd) Md Hanif to 21 months in jail in the case.

The case statement said the accused were involved in obstructing police and attacking them from an unlawful rally in Mohakhali of the capital Dhaka on June 4, 2011. They were also charged with vandalizing and torching vehicles on the road.

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