A Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member MK Anwar in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act. Metropolitan magistrate Mustafa Shahriar Khan granted the bail after Anwar surrendered to the court seeking bail. Anwar’s defence counsel Sanaullah Miah and Masud Ahamed Talukder argued that the police filed the case only to harass Anwar on political motivation.
Anwar surrendered to the court as the court summoned him after the police on June 17 pressed charges against him in the case.
According to the charge sheet, BNP lawmaker Anwar on May 6 at a briefing at the party’s central office at Nayapaltan said that hundreds of copies of the Holy Qur’an were set ablaze by a group of ruling party men led by Dhaka city (south) unit Swechchhasebak League president Debashish Bishwas in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque during the mayhem caused by Hefajat-e-Islam activists in the capital’s Paltan and Gulistan area on May 5.
-With New Age input
