Why Fakhrul's bail extension petitions were dropped from cause list

The Supreme Court directed its registrar general to probe why the bail petitions of BNP's Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were not included in its yesterday's cause list.

The apex court on February 22 fixed yesterday for dealing with Fakhrul's petitions seeking extension of his bail granted by the High Court in three separate arson and vandalism cases. But, the petitions were not included in yesterday's cause list, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star.

SC Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam told The Daily Star last night that his office was yet to get any order from the apex court.

The HC on November 24 last year granted three months' bail to Fakhrul in the cases filed in January last year.

The BNP leader recently filed three petitions with the SC seeking extension of his bail in the cases.

On February 18, during hearing on the petitions, a five-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha asked Fakhrul to explain his comment on the judiciary.

Different newspapers reported that Fakhrul, while addressing a party meeting in Sylhet on February 7, alleged that the government was trying to control the judiciary.

Fakhrul's lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon last night told this correspondent that they will submit explanations on behalf of his client to the SC today.