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3 BNP leaders get HC bail

SC upholds bail for 4 in 2 other cases

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia for three months in a case filed on charge of blasting bombs and holding unlawful assembly.
The case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on May 6 last year following the incident of blasting bombs during the rally of Hefajat-e-lslam in the capital's Motijheel on May 5 the same year.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mohammad Ullah granted bail to the detained BNP leaders after hearing three separate bail petitions filed by them.
Following the HC orders, there is no legal bar to the release of MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam from jail as they have got bail in all the five cases filed against them, AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a lawyer for the petitioners, told The Daily Star.
He, however, said Moudud would not be released now as he was arrested in a corruption case.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court upheld the HC orders that had granted bail to four BNP leaders including Moudud, Anwar and Rafiqul in two other cases involving charges of blasting crude bombs and vandalising vehicles.
The other BNP leader is Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order after dismissing four leave-to-appeal petitions filed by the government against the HC orders.
The HC on January 21 granted bail to the BNP leaders forsix months in the cases.
Police filed the two cases with Motijheel Police Station on September 24 and November 6 last year on charges of blasting crude bombs, vandalising vehicles and preventing cops from discharging their duties.
During a hartal on November 5, BNP men blocked a road near Kamalapur Bazar and hurled crude bombs at law enforcers, according to the statement of a case filed on November 6 last year.
According to another case statement, BNP men from a procession vandalised a car and blasted several cocktails before Motijheel Ideal School and College on September 24 last year.
The names of four BNP leaders were not mentioned in the first information reports of the cases. Police later shown them arrested in the cases.
Moudud, Anwar and Rafiqul were detained in front of Hotel Sonargaon in the capital on November 8 while Biswas near
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan residence on November 9 last year.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail prayers of Moudud and BNP chairperson's adviser Khandaker Mahbub Hossain in two cases, reports our court correspondent.
Judge Md Zahirul Haque of the Senior Special Judge's Court passed the orders after their lawyers had submitted two separate petitions before the court challenging a lower court's bail rejection orders.
The corruption case against Moudud was filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission on charge of grabbing an abandoned public property at Gulshan in the capital.
Moudud's brother Manjur Ahmed is the other accused in the case filed on December 17 last year.
Khandaker Mahbub Hossain was shown arrested in a case on January 22 this year.
The case was filed against 28 BNP leaders including the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on March 2 last year.
The charges of the case include attempted murder of police by throwing cocktails at them, vandalising vehicles and preventing law enforcers from discharging their duties in the capital's Shantinagar and Malibagh areas during a demonstration.