Fakhrul, Abbas get permanent bail in Nayapaltan case

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and party's standing committee member Mirza Abbas have been granted permanent bail in a case filed over the clash between police and party activists in Nayapaltan on 7 December last year.

The senior BNP leaders were released on interim bail on 9 January after serving a month in jail over the case.

After being arrested on 9 December last year, the BNP leaders were denied bail four times in lower courts before the Appellate Division upheld a High Court order granting them bail.

A team of Detective Branch (DB) police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas on 9 December from their residences in separate raids in the capital, a day before the party's mass rally in the capital.

Later, they were shown arrested in a case over the clash between police and the BNP activists in the capital's Nayapaltan area on 7 December centring the party's Dhaka divisional rally was to be held on 10 December last year. A Dhaka court sent them to jail rejecting their bail pleas.

BNP, however, arranged the rally in absence of Fakhrul and Abbas and placed a 10-point demand, including the resignation of the current government and holding the next polls under a non-party polls-time government.