Bdnews24.com . Dhaka
The editor of the pro-Jamaat-e-Islami Bengali daily Sangram, Abul Assad, has been freed on bail four days after his arrest in connection with violence of September 19.
His lawyer Mohammad Abdur Razzak told the news agency, ‘Metropolitan magistrate Rezaul Karim granted him bail on Saturday.’
In the same case, the first accused was Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general ATM Azharul Islam, 59, and the 107th accused was Abul Assad, 69, he added.
On September 19, Jamaat-e-Islami activists went on the rampage when the police intercepted their procession demanding release of their top leaders arrested on war crimes charges.
The supporters set a number of vehicles on fire and vandalised scores of others in front of Rajmani Cinema at Kakrail.
Several cases were filed with Ramna police station accusing several thousand Jamaat men for torching and damaging vehicles, destroying public property and attacking policemen.
On September 20, RAB detained the editor from his Moghbazar residence on charges of instigating the violence.
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