The Supreme Court today upheld the High Court order that had granted bail to lawyer Shakila Farjana in two cases filed over her alleged involvement in financing a terrorist outfit.

An Appellate Division bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha dismissed two petitions filed by the government challenging the HC orders of bail.

There is no legal bar to Shakila's release from Chittagong jail following the SC orders, her lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star.

Earlier on February 22, the HC granted bail to SC

lawyer Shakila in two cases, clearing the way for her release from jail.

Shakila along with two other lawyers — Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfiiz Chowdhury Bapon -were arrested in the capital's Dhanmondi on August 18 last year for their alleged involvement in funding Shaheed Hamja Brigade, a Chittagong-based militant group.

They were shown arrested in two cases filed on February 20 last year with Chittagong's Banshkhali and Hathazari police stations on the charge of financing the outfit. Liton and Bapon earlier got bail from a lower court concerned.