Police produce BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury before a Dhaka court in a sabotage case filed with the city's Paltan thana on Monday — Focus Bangla The High Court (HC) has directed the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka to accept, hear and dispose of the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in connection with nine cases.
The HC also issued a rule, asking the State to explain as to why the CMM Court's refusal to accept and hear the bail petitions of Fakhrul should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Atabullah passed the order on Monday following a writ petition filed challenging the legality of a Dhaka CMM Court's refusal to accept the nine bail petitions of Fakhrul in the nine separate cases.
Mirza Fakhrul was made accused in the nine cases. However, he was not shown arrested yet in the case. As a result, the CMM court refused to entertain the bail petitions in connection with the cases.
Fakhrul's wife Rahat Ara Begum submitted the petition to the HC on December 14 through lawyers, saying that a Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka has violated the fundamental rights of her husband by refusing to accept his bail petitions for hearing on different dates.
UNB adds: a Dhaka Court has rejected the bail petitions of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed with Paltan thana on October 28.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury rejected the bail petitions on Monday and asked police to interrogate them at the jail gate.
The court also rejected the remand petitions of them in the case filed in connection with their involvement in sabotage activities.
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