Three senior pro-BNP lawyers get anticipatory bail

FE REPORT
The High Court granted on Tuesday anticipatory bail for three weeks to three senior lawyers associated with the BNP. The bail was granted in relation to two cases filed with Ramna Police Station.
The lawyers were charged with attacking the official residence of the Chief Justice and vandalizing during the BNP's grand rally on October 28 this year.
The order was passed by the High Court bench consisting of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Md Bashir Ullah, after hearing separate bail petitions filed by the accused.
Three senior lawyers who have been granted anticipatory bail are--- former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and BNP Vice Chairman Zainul Abedin, BNP Vice Chairman Nitai Roy Chowdhury, and former SCBA Secretary and also BNP Joint Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan.
The High Court asked them to surrender in the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court after three weeks.
Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali, Barrister Kayser Kamal, Advocate Subrata Chowdhury, Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal, Barrister AKM Ehsanur Rahman and others appeared in the court hearing on behalf of the accused lawyers.
A clash started between the BNP leaders and activists and the police before the formal launch of the BNP grand rally on October 28. At one stage of the scuffle, the official residence of the Chief Justice was also come under attack.
Apart from this, vandalizing in the Judges Complex, the residential building of the judges of the Supreme Court, cars on the road in front of the Judges Complex, throwing cocktails and bricks, and others incident took place on that day.
Later police filed two cases with the Ramna Model Police Station on the charges of attacking official residence of Chief Justice and vandalizing during BNP's grand rally on October 28.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP Standing Committee Members Mirza Abbas, and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and these three lawyers were made accused in both the cases filed with the Ramna Police Station.
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