SC orders Mirza Alamgir\\\'s medical check up

The Appellate Division has ordered the government to arrange medical check up for BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, arrested in seven cases on charges of sabotage and violence. The top appeals court on Sunday asked for a medical board of three to check Mirza Alamgir’s health and submit a report on Wednesday. A bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order hearing a leave to appeal by the state challenging the High Court’s bail for the BNP leader. The report of the medical check up is ordered to help determine whether Mirza Alamgir’s bail in three cases over violence during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s protests would be upheld or not. Khandaker Mahbub Hossain represented the BNP leader in the hearing. Zainul Abedin and Sagir Hossain were with him. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, who argued for the state, told reporters after the hearing that the order followed the state’s doubt over a previous report on Mirza Alamgir’s health. On June 21, the High Court gave the BNP acting secretary general bail in the three cases at Paltan Police Station. Later, chamber judge Justice Hasan Foez Siddique forwarded to the Appellate Division a petition by the state seeking stay order on the High Court bail. On June 28, the top appeals court upheld the High Court bail for Mirza Alamgir until police filed their report on three other cases on Sunday. The High Court granted him bail in these cases at the police stations in Paltan and Motijheel on June 18. He also secured bail from the High Court in another case at the Paltan Police Station on April 16. On Sunday, the Appellate Division heard the state’s appeal against the June 21 bail. The BNP acting secretary general was arrested on January 6, a day after BNP had declared nationwide indefinite blockade demanding snap polls under a ‘neutral’ caretaker government. He was later shown arrested in the 7 cases over vandalism, attacks on cars, and bombings. He is now undergoing treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University following court order. He appealed to the High Court for release after getting bail in all the cases from judicial courts, according to bdnews24.com.