The High Court on Tuesday extended six months’bail to Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chittagong City unit General Secretary Nurul Azim Rony, who was arrested with firearms near a polling centre during the Upazila Parishad elections, reports UNB.
Earlier on June 13, the court granted six months’ interim bail to Rony until submission of a police report.
As police submitted the report on June 19, the term of his bail expired.
Later his lawyer S M Rezaul Karim appealed for extension of bail on Monday. After hearing, a High Court bench of Justice Kamrul Islam Siddiqi and Amir Hossain, passed the order.
“There is no legal bar to release Rony from jail following the order,” BCL leader’s counsel Advocate SM Rezaul Karim said.
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