HC asks why Mirza Fakhrul shouldn't be granted bail

The High Court on Thursday issued a rule upon the authorities concerned to explain as to why BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir should not be granted bail in a case filed over attack on the residence of the Chief Justice in the city's Kakrail on October 28.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin passed the order after hearing a bail petition filed by the BNP secretary general in the case filed with Ramna Model Police Station in the capital.
The state agencies concerned have been asked to comply with the rule within one week.
Mirza Fakhrul filed the bail petition with the HC on December 3 through his lawyers, after a Dhaka court on November 22 refused to grant him bail in the case. On December 4, the HC bench fixed December 7 to hear the petition.
Lawyers Zainul Abedin, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan, Kayser Kamal, Ruhul Quddus Kazal and Sagir Hossain Leon appeared in the court hearing on behalf of Mirza Fakhrul while Deputy Attorney General BM Adbur Rafell represented the state.
The case was filed with the Ramna Model Police Station on October 29 this year on charge of attack on the residence of the Chief Justice in Kakrail during a clash on October 28.
The Detective Branch of police on the same day detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan residence around 9:25am.
On that day, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam sent him to jail, rejecting his bail prayer. Later the petition was filed with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's court. Judge (in charge) of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka, Faisal Atiq Bin Quader, on November 22 rejected his bail petition in the case.
Barrister Kayser Kamal, a counsel for Mirza Fakhrul, said the BNP secretary general was not involved in the vandalism of the Chief Justice's residence in any manner.
He is an elderly person and moreover, BNP leader Shahjahan Omar, a co-accused of the same case, has already been granted bail in the case, he added.

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