SC upholds Mirza Alamgir\\\'s bail
Monday, 13 July 2015
The Supreme Court has upheld High Court’s bail order for BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three cases of sabotage filed with Dhaka’s Paltan Police Station. The four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha gave the order on Monday after hearing a petition asking for stay on the High Court’s bail order. Mirza Alamgir’s lawyers now say legal hurdles for his release from jail have been removed. The BNP acting secretary general has been given bail for six weeks to seek medical treatment abroad. That follows recommendation by a five-member medical board of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Mirza Alamgir will have to surrender in court again on expiry of the six-week period, says the SC order. The BNP leader, in jail for six months , has been under medical treatment at the BSMMU. He has been shown arrested in 7 cases of violence and sabotage in February during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s indefinite nationwide ransport blockade and hartals, He was shifted to the BSMMU prison cell on June 13 following a High Court order, according to bdnews24.com.