BANGLADESH NEWS
Twenty-two of the 29 pro-BNP lawyers accused of vandalising Dhaka CMM Court secured anticipatory bail for 10 days from the High Court on Thursday.
The solicitors have been directed to surrender before trial court on expiry of the bail.
A division bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain came up with the order nearly three hours after the defendants filed two bail petitions.
The lawyers – including Dhaka Bar Association President Borhanuddin and its former president Sanaullah Mia - were present at the hearing.
The vandalism took place when members of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum boycotted all the judges' and magistrates' courts in the capital on May 22 protesting a court order sending BNP lawmaker Mahbub Uddin Khokon to jail in an arson case.
Police on Tuesday filed a case with Kotwali Police Station against 29 pro-BNP lawyers and 70 other
unnamed people on charges of vandalism and creating anarchy on the premises of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court.
In the case statement, the complainant said the lawyers brought a procession on the court premises at
10:30am on May 22, and chanted slogans demanding unconditional release of BNP leaders including its acting secretary general.
The demonstrators came to the District Judge's Court on the second floor of the court building and broke a window pane, creating panic among lawyers, litigants and other people there.
Later, they went to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court on the first floor of the building and broke a window pane.
On May 21, a Dhaka court accepted charges against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 44 other opposition leaders and activists in a case filed for torching a vehicle near the Prime
Minister's Office on April 29 during hartal hours. Mahbub Uddin Khokon is among the accused in the case.
On May 17, Khokan was arrested in front of the BNP central office at Nayapaltan during hartal.
Khokan, Narsingdi district BNP president, was shown arrested in the arson case filed with Paltan Police Station and was sent to jail on Monday.
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