Suspended GCC mayor Zahangir gets HC bail

The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to suspended Mayor of the Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mohammad Zahangir Alam in a defamation case filed in Faridpur.

The HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Hasan and Justice Md Atabullah passed the order after hearing a bail petition filed by Zahangir.

Lawyer MK Rahman who appeared in the court hearing on behalf of the ex-GCC Mayor said the High Court has granted eight weeks bail to Zahangir Alam.

Following a case filed by Ataur Rahman, organising secretary of an organisation named 'Manobik Bangladesh Society' senior judicial magistrate of Faridpur, Farid Uddin, on August 31 this year issued an arrest warrant against Zahangir Alam.

A total of eight cases were filed against him for his 'controversial comments' on Bangabandhu and Liberation War martyrs.

Earlier he secured High Court in seven other cases filed on the same ground.

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