The High Court yesterday granted anticipatory bail for a month to 489 BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists from different districts in nine separate cases filed on charges of vandalising public property and obstructing police from discharging duties.The cases were filed after the country witnessed a number of incidents of violence on January 29 centring a mass procession programme by BNP-Jamaat led four-party alliance.
An HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan passed the order after hearing nine separate bail petitions submitted by the accused.
Among the accused leaders and workers, 138 from Borguna, 181 from Laksmipur, 16 from Nilphamari, 70 from Kurigram, 35 from Faridpur and 48 from Chandpur appeared before the court seeking bail yesterday.
Barrister Moudud Ahmed, advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain, advocate Zainul Abedin and barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon appeared for the accused.