Twenty-five pro-BNP lawyers including Dhaka Ainjibi Samity President Mohammad Borhan Uddin on Sunday secured bail from Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's court in a case that accuses them of creating chaos and vandalism at court premises.
Additional CMM Saidul Islam granted interim bail to them, until June 19, after their earlier bail granted by the High Court expired the same day.
The judge also accepted the charge-sheet against them at the same hearing of the case filed under the Speedy Trial Act.
At the hearing, state counsel Additional Public Prosecutor Shah Alam told the court, "They are lawyers just like us. We don't have any problem with their bail. But it must be ensured that this kind of chaotic incidents will not take place on the court premises again."
On May 22, the defendants created chaos by smashing window glasses and doors at the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court and throwing a black flag at the Metropolitan Judicial Magistrate's Court when a hearing was going on.
Kotwali Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Mokbul Hossain had filed the case later that night against more than 70 people for the incidents. Twenty-nine people were named as accused in the case.
Kotwali police SI Mohammad Azizul Haque submitted the charge-sheet on Thursday afternoon at the CMM court against the 25 lawyers.
The lawyers were protesting the court's rejection to the bail plea of BNP leader and leader of the pro-BNP lawyers Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon in a case over violence during an opposition-enforced countrywide general strike on Apr 29.
The High Court on May 24 had granted the main opposition-backed lawyers 10-day anticipatory bails after they regretted their actions at several courts in Dhaka and pleaded for bail.
Earlier, they had applied for pre-arrest bail at the High Court after the incident. But the court asked them to file bail pleas afresh expressing regret.
On Apr 29, a vehicle was torched near the Prime Minister's Office allegedly by the pickets and two bombs exploded at the Secretariat area during the shutdown.
The top BNP leaders including Acting Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir are now in jail in the two cases filed by the police.
Additional CMM Saidul Islam granted interim bail to them, until June 19, after their earlier bail granted by the High Court expired the same day.
The judge also accepted the charge-sheet against them at the same hearing of the case filed under the Speedy Trial Act.
At the hearing, state counsel Additional Public Prosecutor Shah Alam told the court, "They are lawyers just like us. We don't have any problem with their bail. But it must be ensured that this kind of chaotic incidents will not take place on the court premises again."
On May 22, the defendants created chaos by smashing window glasses and doors at the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court and throwing a black flag at the Metropolitan Judicial Magistrate's Court when a hearing was going on.
Kotwali Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Mokbul Hossain had filed the case later that night against more than 70 people for the incidents. Twenty-nine people were named as accused in the case.
Kotwali police SI Mohammad Azizul Haque submitted the charge-sheet on Thursday afternoon at the CMM court against the 25 lawyers.
The lawyers were protesting the court's rejection to the bail plea of BNP leader and leader of the pro-BNP lawyers Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon in a case over violence during an opposition-enforced countrywide general strike on Apr 29.
The High Court on May 24 had granted the main opposition-backed lawyers 10-day anticipatory bails after they regretted their actions at several courts in Dhaka and pleaded for bail.
Earlier, they had applied for pre-arrest bail at the High Court after the incident. But the court asked them to file bail pleas afresh expressing regret.
On Apr 29, a vehicle was torched near the Prime Minister's Office allegedly by the pickets and two bombs exploded at the Secretariat area during the shutdown.
The top BNP leaders including Acting Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir are now in jail in the two cases filed by the police.
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