DHAKA, Dec 12, 2024 (BSS) - A court here today granted bail to BNP leader
Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan in a case lodged over allegedly attempting to abduct
and murder ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the
United States (US) in 2015.
 
Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque passed the order
as Mizanur surrendered before the court and pleaded for bail on the condition
of filing an appeal.
 
On August 17, 2023, the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur convicted and sentenced five people, including
veteran journalist Shafik Rehman, Daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman, and
Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan Milton, an expat businessman living in the US, to
seven years imprisonment.
 
The other convicts in the case are Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha
(Jasas) Vice-President Mohammad Ullah Mamun and his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar.
 
The Ministry of Home Affairs on September 22 stayed Mizanur's sentence for a
year.
 
Police on August 3, 2015, filed the case with Paltan Police Station and on
February 19, 2018, filed a charge sheet against the five.
 
A total of 12 witnesses including Joy testified in the case on different
hearing dates.