The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to controversial ruling party lawmaker Gulam Maula Rony in three cases including an attempt to murder case.
Of the cases, one was filed for assaulting two journalists of a private TV channel, while the others were filed for extortion and vandalising establishments in Patuakhali. After hearing on three separate bail petitions, the vacation bench of the HC comprising Justice Md Nizamul Huq and Justice Kashefa Husain granted the interim bail to Rony.
It also issued three separate rules asking the government to explain in four weeks as to why he should not be
granted regular bail in the cases. Earlier on July 25, a Dhaka court sent Rony to jail rejecting his bail prayer in the case filed for assaulting two journalists of Independent TV.
Rony, along with his supporters, reportedly assaulted two journalists of the TV channel on July 21 when they went to Rony’s office at Topkhana Road in the city to verify some allegations against the MP.
A team of DB police arrested Rony from the city’s Badda area on July 24, hours after the issuance of an arrest warrant against him.
The trial court issued the warrant against him following a case filed on July 21 by Independent Television authorities with Shahbagh Police Station against Rony on charge of beating up its reporter Imtiaz Momin and cameraperson Mohsin Mukul at his Topkhana Road office in the capital the same day.
On August 11, two cases were filed with Galachipa Police Station in Patuakhali against the lawmaker, his relatives and party men on charge of extortion, foiling a party meeting and ransacking business establishments.
-With The Independent input
