BNP leader GK Gaus denied bail

A Habiganj court yesterday rejected the bail prayer of suspended Habiganj municipal mayor GK Gaus in former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case.

District and Sessions Judge M Atabullah denied the bail after hearing on the bail petition, said GK Gaus's lawyer Nurul Islam.

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On January 27 in 2005, former finance minister Kibria was killed along with four others, including his nephew, in a grenade attack at Baidderbazar of Habiganj Sadar upazila when he was coming out after addressing a rally.

On December 28 in 2014, Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court of Habiganj sent GK Gaus, also general secretary of the district unit BNP, to prison on his surrender.