The High Court today granted permanent bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over last year's December 7 clash between police and BNP men in the capital's Nayapaltan area.
The HC bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan passed the order after holding the final hearing on a petition filed by Fakhrul and Abbas seeking bail in the case.
On the same petition, the HC on January 3 granted six-month ad interim bail to them and issued a rule asking the state to explain why they should not be granted permanent bail in the case.
The case was filed with Paltan Model Police Station on December 8 last year, a day after the clash broke out in front of BNP's Nayapaltan office.
The clash left one person dead and many injured.
Fakhrul and Abbas were picked up from their homes around 3:00am on December 9, a day before their Dhaka divisional mass rally.
