Five opposition MPs secured six weeks' bail from the High Court in an arson attack case on Sunday, hours before the budget session of Parliament was to begin.
The bench of Justices Salma Masud Chowdhury and F R M Nazmul Ahsan also issued a rule asking the government why all the accused opposition leaders who appealed for bail should not get regular bail.
The government was given seven days to respond to the rule.
Those who got bail are BNP MPs M K Anwar, Mahbub Uddin Khokan and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie, and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) MP Oli Ahmed and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) MP Andaleeve Rahman Partho.
They had been sent to jail in one of the cases filed under the Speedy Trial Act over torching of a vehicle during a shutdown on Apr 29.
Khandker Mahbub Hossain, former President of Supreme Court Bar Association and Advisor to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, argued for the petitioners while Additional Attorney General M K Rahman stood for the state.
M K Rahman said the court granted bail for six weeks. Mahbub Hossain, however, said the bail was for six months, not six weeks.
Earlier in the day, counsels of the opposition leaders appealed against the May 23 order of the Metropolitan Sessions Judges' Court that rejected bail pleas of the arrested 18-Party opposition alliance leaders.
The BNP had enforced the Apr 29 general strike in protest against the disappearance of one of its organising secretaries M Ilias Ali. Tejgaon police had filed a case under the Speedy Trial Act against the opposition leaders over the incident.
Thirty-three top opposition leaders, including BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Anwar, Students Affairs Secretary Annie, Liberal Democratic Party President Oli, and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Chairman Partho, had been sent to jail on May 17 following an order by a Dhaka metropolitan speedy trial magistrate after they surrendered in line with a previous High Court order.
BNP Joint Secretary-General Mahbub Uddin Khokan had been granted anticipatory bail until May 21 but he was arrested after the bail expired.
Another BNP Joint Secretary-General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and leader Kamrazzuman Ratan had been arrested earlier.
The other detained leaders include BNP Vice Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Standing Committee Members Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, A S M Hannan Shah, Mirza Abbas and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Joint Secretary-General Aman Ullah Aman, Organising Secretary Fazlul Haque Milon and International Affairs Secretary Nazim Uddin Alam.
Jatiya Ganatantrik Party President Shafiul Alam Prodhan and NPP Chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu had also been sent to jail in the same case.
The bench of Justices Salma Masud Chowdhury and F R M Nazmul Ahsan also issued a rule asking the government why all the accused opposition leaders who appealed for bail should not get regular bail.
The government was given seven days to respond to the rule.
Those who got bail are BNP MPs M K Anwar, Mahbub Uddin Khokan and Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie, and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) MP Oli Ahmed and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) MP Andaleeve Rahman Partho.
They had been sent to jail in one of the cases filed under the Speedy Trial Act over torching of a vehicle during a shutdown on Apr 29.
Khandker Mahbub Hossain, former President of Supreme Court Bar Association and Advisor to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, argued for the petitioners while Additional Attorney General M K Rahman stood for the state.
M K Rahman said the court granted bail for six weeks. Mahbub Hossain, however, said the bail was for six months, not six weeks.
Earlier in the day, counsels of the opposition leaders appealed against the May 23 order of the Metropolitan Sessions Judges' Court that rejected bail pleas of the arrested 18-Party opposition alliance leaders.
The BNP had enforced the Apr 29 general strike in protest against the disappearance of one of its organising secretaries M Ilias Ali. Tejgaon police had filed a case under the Speedy Trial Act against the opposition leaders over the incident.
Thirty-three top opposition leaders, including BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Member Anwar, Students Affairs Secretary Annie, Liberal Democratic Party President Oli, and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Chairman Partho, had been sent to jail on May 17 following an order by a Dhaka metropolitan speedy trial magistrate after they surrendered in line with a previous High Court order.
BNP Joint Secretary-General Mahbub Uddin Khokan had been granted anticipatory bail until May 21 but he was arrested after the bail expired.
Another BNP Joint Secretary-General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and leader Kamrazzuman Ratan had been arrested earlier.
The other detained leaders include BNP Vice Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Standing Committee Members Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, A S M Hannan Shah, Mirza Abbas and Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Joint Secretary-General Aman Ullah Aman, Organising Secretary Fazlul Haque Milon and International Affairs Secretary Nazim Uddin Alam.
Jatiya Ganatantrik Party President Shafiul Alam Prodhan and NPP Chairman Sheikh Shawkat Hossain Nilu had also been sent to jail in the same case.
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