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6 BNP leaders get HC bail

Khoka denied at lower court

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday granted six months' bail to six BNP leaders, including its standing committee members MK Anwar, Moudud Ahmed, Rafiqul Islam Mia and ASM Hannan Shah, in a total of eight cases.
Two other leaders to have secured bail are BNP Vice-chairman Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin and BNP chairperson's special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas.
Anwar, Moudud, Rafiqul and Shimul got bail in two separate cases. One of the cases was filed with Motijheel Police Station for killing police official Md Shahjahan during the May 5 mayhem of Hefajat-e Islam last year.
Another case was filed with the same police station for vandalising a police box at the capital's Motijheel the same day.
Hannan Shah secured bail in five cases, including these two cases.
Three other cases were filed with Motijheel Police Station on different days last year on charges of vandalising vehicles and arson attacks, a lawyer for Hannan told The Daily Star, requesting anonymity.
He said Hannan is accused in another vandalism case filed with Banani Police Station but he was not shown arrested in the case yet.
If Hannan is not shown arrested in this case, he will have no bar to walking out of jail, the lawyer said.
Anwar, Moudud, Rafiqul and Shimul, however, will not be released from jail despite yesterday's bail order as they have been shown arrested in some other cases, their lawyer AKM
Ehsanur Rahman said.
Nasir Uddin got bail in a case filed for vandalising a taxi in Chittagong and now there is no legal bar to his release from jail, said Nasir's counsel Bodruddoza Badal.
The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader granted bail to the BNP leaders after hearing 14 separate bail petitions filed by the accused.
Meanwhile, BNP Vice-chairman
Sadeque Hossain Khoka has again been denied bail in two cases for vandalism and instigation.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jahurul Haque passed the order after hearing two bail petitions by Khoka's lawyer Mohsin Mia.
The BNP leader filed the petitions on January 16 challenging the legality of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court rejection of bail prayer.
On January 7, the court denied him
bail in the two cases.
Of the cases, one was filed with Sutrapur Police Station after a man was killed as miscreants set fire to a human haulier in front of Victoria Park in old Dhaka on November 9.
The other case was filed on December 7 with Paltan Police Station accusing him of making a seditious remark during a programme in the capital on October 14 last year.
On that day, Khoka directed BNP
leaders and activists to be armed with machetes and axes to counter any attacks while joining the opposition's October 25 rally in the capital.
Earlier on Thursday, the same court rejected his bail petitions in four other cases filed for hartal and blockade violence.
With a total of 10 cases filed against him, Khoka is currently behind bars.