Fakhrul released on bail, refuses flowers

Nearly one month after his arrest, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was freed from jail on bail on Monday. The BNP leader was released from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) prison cell around 5:50pm after his release order reached the jail authorities.
As Fakhrul came out of the BSMMU prison cell, leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisations, led by BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka, joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu and Dhaka city unit member secretary Abdus Salam received and presented him bouquets. But he refused to take the banquets saying, “Don’t do this the country is passing through a calamitous condition.”
Fakhrul later drove home straight from the hospital. He was taken to the BSMMU from Kashimpur Jail on April 24 after he fell sick.
On Sunday, the High Court granted six months’ bail to the BNP acting secretary general in five cases filed over March 2 violence in the city.
Police filed the cases against over 1,000 BNP men, including 38 central leaders, on charges of attacking cops, vandalising and torching vehicles in the city’s Malibagh, Mouchak and Siddheswari areas on March 2.
On April 7, three Dhaka courts sent 10 BNP leaders, including Fakhrul, to jail rejecting their bail petitions.
On April 21, Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court of Dhaka granted bail to three BNP MPs but denied that to its top seven leaders, including Fakhrul, in the cases.
On March 11, police in a raid on BNP’s Nayapaltan central office arrested over 150 of its leaders and workers, including Fakhrul.
Later, he was released but the lower court sent him jail gain on April 7. UNB

 

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