BANGLADESH NEWS
BNP lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie who secured bail from the High Court on May 27 in an arson case, walked out of Kashimpur jail on Tuesday.
Forman Ali, superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail-2, told that Annie was released around 3:25pm.
BNP lawmakers MK Anwar and Mahbub Uddin Khokon; Liberal Democratic Party President Oli Ahmed and Bangladesh Jatiya Party President Andalib Rahman Partha along with Annie got the HC bail on May 27 in the same case.
Earlier on Monday, MK Anwar, Khokon, Oli and Partha were released from jail.
Police filed the arson case on April 29 accusing a number of BNP-led 18-party alliance leaders and activists as a vehicle was torched near the Prime Minister's Office during the hartal hours on the day.
Of the accused, only MK Anwar, Khokon, Annie, Oli and Partha secured the bail from the HC.
The court also rejected the bail petitions of 34 other opposition leaders accused in the case.
On May 16 and 21, a metropolitan magistrate sent the leaders to jail after rejecting their bail petitions.
On May 10, detectives pressed charges against 45 leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in the arson case, filed with Tejgaon Police Station after the torching of a bus in front of Prime Minister's Office during the April 29 hartal hours.
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