The jail authorities said all the 27 accused were released from the jail around 10am.

Their relatives received them at the jail gate.

Earlier on Monday, Additional Metropolitan Judge Ibrahim Mia granted bail to the former BDR members.

Mohammad AL Mamun, jail superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail part-1, said the bail order of the accused was reached at the jail gate on Tuesday afternoon.

On 25 and 26 February 2009, 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in a mutiny at the Border Guard Headquarters in Pilkhana.

On 5 November 2013, a Dhaka court awarded death sentences to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 others in a murder case.