Ctg BCL leader Rony freed on bail

Staff Correspondent, Chittagong: Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chittagong City unit General Secretary Nurul Azim Rony has been released on Thursday afternoon after securing bail from a Chittagong court in an arms case.

Earlier on June 28, the High Court extended for more three months’bail to Rony, who was arrested with firearms near a polling centre during the Upazila Parishad elections.

The HC bench of Justice Kamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice Amir Hossain passed the order following a petition filed by Rony seeking extension of the bail order.

The HC on June 13 granted bail to Rony for six months or till submission of police report to the lower court in the case, whichever is earlier. But six days later, police submitted the probe report against Rony to a Chittagong court and therefore, his bail order has been cancelled.

On May 7, a mobile court jailed BCL general secretary of Chittagong city Rony for two years for carrying an illegal firearm and vote rigging during Union Parishad election in Chittagong`s Hathazari upazila in Chittagong.

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