Suspended Gazipur mayor freed from jail on bail
UNB
GAZIPUR: Suspended mayor of Gazipur City Corporation MA Mannan was released on bail from Kashimpur jail yesetrday afternoon, reports UNB. Prosanta Kumar Bala, jail super of Kashimpur Jail Part-1, said he walked out of the jail around 1pm after papers of his bail order reached the jail on Thursday night. Advocate Shahiduzzaman, BNP leader Bashir Ahmmed Bacchu, councilor Tanvir Ahmed and other BNP leaders received him at the jail gate. On April 16, 2016, Mannan was shifted to the part-1 of the jail. On November 24, 2016, the Supreme Court upheld a High Court order that had granted bail to suspended mayor of Gazipur City Corporation MA Mannan in a corruption case clearing the way of his walk out of jail. Mannan, also the advisor of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, was arrested from his Baridhara residence in the capital on February 11 of 2015 in a case filed for hurling petrol bombs on a passenger bus in Gazipur. Later he was released in bail on March 2. After his release, the law enforcers rearrested him April15, 2016. Besides, some two dozens of cases were filed against the BNP leader.
