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The High Court on Monday set December 7 to hear the bail petition placed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in connection with a case filed over the attack on the residence of the Chief Justice in Dhaka's Kakrail on October 28 last.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin on Monday set the date after Fakhrul's lawyer Zainul Abedin asked for the hearing.
Mirza Fakhrul filed the bail petition with the HC on December 3 through his lawyers, after a Dhaka court on November 22 refused to grant him bail in the case.
Barrister Kayser Kamal, also a counsel for Mirza Fakhrul, said BNP Secretary General was not involved in the vandalism of the Chief Justice's residence in any manner. He is an elderly person.
Besides, BNP leader Shahjahan Omar, a co-accused of the same case, has already been granted bail, he added.
On October 29, the Detective Branch of police detained Fakhrul from his Gulshan residence around 9:25 am. That day around 10:00 pm, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam sent him to jail, rejecting his bail prayer.
Later, the petition was filed with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s court against the order passed by the Metropolitan Magistrate Court. Judge (in charge) of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court in Dhaka, Faisal Atiq Bin Quader, on November 22 rejected his bail petition in the case.