STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Detained former Awami League ministers Md Nurul Islam Sujan and Asaduzzaman Noor were granted bail in three separate cases and one case, respectively, by the High Court yesterday.

However, the court refused to grant bail to Asaduzzaman Noor in a murder case and to senior journalist Mozammel Babu in an extortion case.

The bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher delivered the verdicts after hearing five separate bail petitions filed by Sujan, Noor, and Babu over the past year and earlier this year, citing health issues and long periods in jail.

Sujan’s lawyer SM Abul Hossain said there is no legal bar to his release if the state does not file an appeal before the Appellate

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