The Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, was released on bail on Tuesday after 57 days of his detention. Kashimpur central jail authority released him just before 5:00pm after they had received an order for his release on bail.
The government is out to suppress the movement for the through detention, enforced disappearance and killing of opposition leaders and activists, Fakhrul alleged while addressing BNP and Chhatra Dal activists who received him at the jail gate.
The warned the government that repression on the opposition leaders and activists cannot stop the ongoing movement and said the people would overthrow it through a mass upsurge.
He alleged that thousands of opposition activists were being detained and implicated in false cases, as the government had unleashed repression on the opposition.
Fakhrul, arrested on December 10, 2012 in two cases relating to violence during countrywide road blockade enforced by the BNP-led opposition alliance on December 9, 2012, was released after he had obtained bail in six cases, in which he had been implicated.
The High Court on Monday granted interim bail for six months to Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in the last case.
The bench of Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain passed the order after hearing his bail petition in a case of an alleged attempt to kill police by blasting crude bombs in the Kalabagan area during the blockade.
A total of 38 cases had been filed against leaders and activists of the BNP-led opposition alliance on charges of violence in the capital during the December 9 blockade.
Although Fakhrul was not named as an accused in the first information reports of the cases, the police had kept implicating him in new cases immediately after he had obtained bails in the cases.
The High Court granted him interim bail for six months on January 2. On January 3, however, he was shown arrested in two more cases filed with Motijheel and Sutrapur police stations.
Fakhrul secured bail in the Sutrapur case, but was denied bail in Motijheel case on January 15.
Later, the High Court granted him bail for six month in the case.
The police, however, again showed Fakhrul arrested in two cases filed with Paltan and Kalabagan police stations.
On January 27, the High Court directed the government and police not to arrest or harass Fakhrul for next two months except in due process of law after getting bail in pending cases against him.
The court had passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Fakhrul seeking a direction on the government not to show him arrested in any more cases.
On January 31, the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court granted Fakhrul bail in Paltan case but denied him bail in the Kalabagan case.
The High Court on Monday granted him bail in the Kalabagan case.
Courtesy of New Age
