The Daily Morning Voice Online Desk: The High Court today granted six-month bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over the December 7 clashes between police and BNP men in the capital’s Nayapaltan area.vTheir lawyers submitted a petition to the HC seeking their bail in the case yesterday.

Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas have earlier been denied bail four times by the lower courts concerned in the same case. The case was filed with Paltan Model Police Station on December 8, a day after the clash broke out in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan office. The clash left one person dead and many injured. Fakhrul and Abbas were picked up from their homes around 3:00am on December 9, a day before their Dhaka divisional mass rally, and were sent to jail after Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jashim rejected their bail petitions. The two were shown arrested on charges of provoking party activists to attack police.