Shawdesh dEsk:

The High Court on Thursday asked the government to explain in one week why detained Bangladesh Nationalist party’ secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir would not be granted bail.

Fakhrul has been in jail since October 29 in a case filed by the police against him and 71 other top BNP leaders for the alleged attack on the Chief Justice’s official residence in Dhaka during the party’s October 28 grand rally.

The bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin issued the rule.

The 76-year old BNP leader filed the petition on Sunday challenging the lower court’s order that denied his bail.

Acting Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge Faisal Atiq Bin Quader denied Fakhrul’s bail on November 22, saying that the BNP leader was involved in the attack on the residence of chief justice.

Fakhrul’s lawyer Zainul Abedin argued in the High Court that the BNP leader should be freed on bail as he was suffering from various ailments due to old-age.

Deputy attorney general BM Abdur Rafel  vehemently opposed the bail, stating that Mirza Fakhrul led and ordered the party activists to attack  the residence of the chief justice,  the guardian of the judiciary.