A Dhaka court today granted bail to Shahzadi Mustarshida Sultana and Muna Shaha in a case filed over the deaths of Mahbuba Akter Akhi and her newborn at Central Hospital in the capital.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sultan Sohag Uddin passed the order after their lawyer submitted a petition seeking bail on humanitarian grounds.

The bail order will remain valid till submission of the probe report.

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Doctors suspend strike after Central Hospital physicians get bail

In the order, the magistrate said the charges brought against them are bailable, and considering their social status as well as the fact they are women.

The bail order came when doctors at private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres are observing a two-day strike from yesterday demanding the release of two physicians.

Earlier, their bail petitions were rejected by Dhaka's Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court considering the depth of offences brought against them.

Shahzadi and Muna were produced before the court on June 15 after their arrests in connection with the case.

Later, they gave confessional statements before two separate magistrates. The court then sent them to jail after rejecting their bail petitions.

Akhi died on June 18, eight days after the death of her newborn baby.

On June 14, her husband Yakub filed a case with Dhanmondi Police Station, accusing the doctors concerned and the Central Hospital of botched C-section and fraud.

The accused falsely promised the patient and her family before the procedure that a doctor named Sanjukta Saha was at the hospital, said the complaint.