SC upholds bail for BNP’s Amir Khasru

The Supreme Court has upheld bail for BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in two separate cases filed over the recent student protests.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain dismissed two petitions filed by the government against his bail.

The cases were filed in Dhaka and Chattogram on charges of provoking the student protests for safe roads and conspiring with to destabilise the country.

The High Court in first week of September granted bail to Amir Khasru in the cases.

Later on, the government filed two separate petitions with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order – which was eventually scrapped today.