Shakila Farjana gets bail in cases over financing militant outfit

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana in two cases filed over her alleged involvement in financing a militant outfit, clearing the way for her release from jail.

Shakila along with two other lawyers, Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon, were arrested from Dhanmondi area in the capital on August 18 last year for their alleged link in funding Shaheed Hamja Brigade, a Chittagong-based militant outfit.

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They were shown arrested in the two cases filed on February 20 last year.

Yesterday, the bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque granted bail to Shakila until the trial court frames charges in the cases against her.

There is no legal bar to Shakila's release from jail following the HC verdict, her lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star.