Mojahid denied bail, ordered to surrender

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The High Court on Sunday rejected a bail petition by Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, and ordered him to surrender to the trial court within two weeks, reports bdnews24.com.
Mojahid, facing an arrest warrant in the Barapukuria graft case, appeared at the High Court Sunday for a bail hearing with a tight police cordon secured around the court premises.
His lawyers submitted the bail petition to the bench of justices Mohammad Anwarul Haque and Farah Mahbub earlier in the day.
Mojahid's lawyer barrister Abdur Razzak told the court at the time that his client could not appear in before the court as police "had surrounded his home".
"The hearing on the bail appeal might take place this afternoon," he later told bdnews24.com.
Security measures were heightened in and around the High Court premises as lawyers submitted the bail appeal, with law enforcers checking all vehicles on entry while huge numbers of Jamaat and Shibir activists thronged the area.