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Mintoo freed from jail

Khandker Mahbub stays in prison, Khoka's bail plea rejected

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo was freed from Kashimpur jail last evening, nearly two and a half months after he was arrested on charges of instigating the recent opposition violence.
Jailer Abdul Quddus confirmed his release.
Mintoo was detained on November 9 last year near Khaleda's Gulshan residence, and was later shown arrested in two cases. He got bail from the High Court on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the HC yesterday granted bail to BNP leader Khandker Mahbub Hossain in an attempted murder case. He, however, will not be able to walk out of jail as he was shown arrested in a vandalism case on Wednesday night.
Also yesterday, BNP Vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka has again been denied bail by a lower court in four cases filed in connection with arson attacks and attempted murder.
The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted bail to Khandker Mahbub after hearing a bail prayer filed by the counsels of the BNP chairperson's adviser.
However, Mahbub would have to stay in jail as he had been shown arrested in a vandalism case filed with Ramna Police Station in March last year, M Masud Rana, one of his counsels, told The Daily Star.
After granting bail, the HC also issued a rule asking the government to explain why Mahbub should not be granted regular bail in the attempted murder case.
The bail order will remain in force till the disposal of the rule.
Police filed the case on January 5 after miscreants hurled several crude bombs at the office of Maruf Hossain Sardar, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, on New Circular Road in the capital.
Earlier on Tuesday, the same HC bench declared illegal a trial court order that placed Mahbub on a two-day remand in the case.
Moreover, another HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Md Habibul Gani yesterday directed the government not to harass or arrest Mahbub in any new case without following due legal procedures.
Detectives picked up Mahbub, who is also the vice-chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, on January 7 when he came out of the Jatiya Press Club premises in the capital after a programme where he denounced the January 5 election.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court rejected bail petitions of Sadeque Hossain Khoka in four different cases filed with different police stations in the capital.
Three of the four cases -filed with Ramna, Shahbagh and Mohammadpur police stations - are murder cases while the one filed with Tejgaon Police Station is an attempted murder case.
The first case with Shahbagh Police Station was filed for torching a bus carrying 19 people at Shahbagh on November 28 that left four dead and injured 15 others.
The second case with Ramna Police Station accused him of setting fire to
a bus that killed a passenger and injured another at Malibagh on November 30 last year.
The third case was filed with Mohammadpur Police Station on October 26 last year against Khoka and 23 others for torching a bus that killed a female passerby and injured several others.
The attempted murder case was filed with Tejgaon Police Station against Khoka and 22 others the same day for setting fire to a vehicle with the driver and passengers still inside it.
The Detective Branch of police arrested Khoka from a residence at Sector-4 in the capital's Uttara on December 4. Later he was shown arrested in the cases on different dates.