Nearly 2,350 activists and leaders of BNP-Jamaat including BNP standing committee members Amir Khashru Mahmud Chowdhury, Nazrul Islam Khan and BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi were granted bail by several courts of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) on Tuesday in sabotage cases centring quota reform movement filed different police stations in Dhaka.
Such orders have been passed on Tuesday by Dhaka's several courts about the BNP-Jamaat senior leaders within 24 hours of the fall and fleeing of Sheikh Hasina from the country. Among the other prominent senior leaders of BNP-Jamaat who got bail in the sabotage cases are Special Assistant to BNP Chairperson Shamsur Rahman alias Shimul Biswas, Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP Convener Saiful Alam Nirob, South Convener Rafiqul Islam Majnu, BNP Publicity Secretary Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Dhaka Metropolitan North Member Secretary Aminul Haque, Bagerhat district BNP Convener MA Salam and BNP Joint Secretary General Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie. Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar, its Nayeb-e-Amir Dr Abdullah Md Abu Taher, central working council member and former secretary of Gazipur unit Jamaat-e-islami Samiul Haque Faruki, former president of Islami Chhatra Shibir Rashedul Islam.
Other political party leaders who secured bail are Bangladesh Jatiya Party(Monju) Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho, 12-Party Alliance Coordinator Advocate Syed Ehsanul Huda , Gana Odhikar Parishad president and DUCSU former VP Nurul Haque Nur.
Former BRAC University teacher Asif Mahtab also got bail in a sabotage case.
The court sources said President Mohammed Shahabuddin ordered officials concerned to free the detainees in various cases during July 1 to Augusts 5 in movements of the anti-discrimination student's movement.
Of the bailed students 23 were granted bail in Shahbag Police Station, 11 in Ramna , 17 in Airport Police, 34 in New market and Kalabaghan, 102 in Lalbagh and Chawak Bazar, 15 in Cantonment, 86 in Sutrapur and Gendaria, 99 in Adabor and Mohammadpur, 71 in Kafrul, 23 in Sher-e-Bangla, 179 in Mirpur , 72 in Kotwali and Bangshal, 65 in Dhanmondi, 40 in Khilgaon and Mughda, one in Shahali, 115 Shabuzbagh and Rampura, 121 Tejgaon, Tejgaon Shipanachal and Hatirjheel, 194 in Badda and Bhatara, 86 in Shyampur and Kadamtala, 190 Uttara East, Uttara West and Turag , 120 Banani and Gulshan , 253 in Demra and Jatrabari , 219 Pallabi and Rupnagar, 214 Paltan, Motijheel and Shahjahanpur.
A defence team lawyer member Advocate Abul Kalam Khan confirmed the news to the Daily Observer on Tuesday.
The defence lawyer said among the leaders and activists who were arrested in the past few days in connection with the violence centring the quota reform movement, the court granted bail to all those who applied for bail on Tuesday.
A total of 10,431 persons were arrested centring the quota reform movement as of July 30 since the beginning of the movement.
