BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and the party’s standing committee member Mirza Abbas have been from jail on bail after a month of their arrest.
They got out of the Keraniganj Central Jail on Monday evening.
Deputy jailer Md Selim told risingbd that the two BNP leaders were freed from jail after completing all formalities around 5:50 pm on Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, the Appellate Division upheld the High Court order granting bail to Fakhrul and party standing committee member Abbas in a case filed over the clash between police and the party activists at Nayapaltan on December 7 last year.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order disposing of the state`s petition challenging the High Court order.
On January 4, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Jahangir Hossain fixed Sunday for the hearing of the petition at the full bench of the Appellate Division.
The petition was filed on the same day with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order granting bail to the two BNP leaders in the case.
The High Court granted six months` bail to Fakhrul and Abbas, in the case on January 3.
On December 9, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police picked up Fakhrul and Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital, a day before the party’s much-talked-about rally in the capital.
Later, they were arrested in a case over the clash between police and the party activists in the capital`s Nayapaltan on December 7 centring the rally. A Dhaka court sent them to jail rejecting their bail pleas.
BNP, however, arranged the rally in absence of Fakhrul and Abbas and placed a 10-point demand, including the resignation of the current government and holding the next polls under a non-party polls-time government.
