Rizvi granted bail in one case, denied in another
A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in a case filed for cocktail explosion inside the Bangladesh Secretariat during the April 29 hartal.
The court, however, turned down another bail petition of Rizvi in a case filed for torching a bus near the Prime Minister's Office on the same day.
Judge Mohammad Zahurul Haque of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the orders after hearing on two petitions filed by Rizvi's lawyer against the rejection orders of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court of Dhaka.
Earlier on May 7, the CMM court rejected both bail petitions of Rizvi.
After cocktails went off inside the Secretariat and a bus was torched near the PMO, police on April 29 filed a case under the Explosive Substances Act with Shahbagh Police Station and an arson case with Tejgaon Police Station against opposition leaders.
Rizvi was arrested from the capital's Kakrail area on April 30, the last day of the second consecutive countrywide shutdown protesting the disappearance of BNP leader Ilias Ali and his driver.
Meantime, the same court yesterday rejected a bail petition of Sirajul Haque, former deputy minister for health, in connection with a case filed for torching vehicles in front of BNP central office at Nayapaltan during the April 29 hartal.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 32 other high-profile opposition leaders also appealed to the sessions court seeking bail against the rejection order of the CMM court.
The court fixed May 23 for the hearing on the appeal.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mirza Alamgir and 32 other opposition leaders ended up in jail after the CMM court rejected their bail prayers in connection with an arson case.
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