Rony gets bail in all 3 cases

10 September 2013, 08:18 AM

UPDATED 10 September 2013, 21:02 PM

Star Online Report

This July 24 photo shows detectives taking Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony to DB headquarters after arresting him at Baridhara in the capital. Embattled Awami League lawmaker Golam Maula Rony has no legal bar to get released from jail as he obtained bail in all three criminal cases on Tuesday, his lawyer say. Of the cases, one was filed for beating up two TV journalists in the capital, while the others for extortion and vandalising establishments in Patuakhali. "There is no legal bar to the release of Rony following the HC orders," Ruhul Quddus Kazal, a counsel for the lawmaker, told The Daily Star. The HC granted ad interim bail to Rony, and issued three separate rules asking the government to explain in four weeks why he should not be granted regular bail in the cases. The Patuakhali-3 lawmaker will enjoy the bail until the rules are disposed of, said the vacation bench of Justice Md Nizamul Huq and Justice Kashefa Husain. The ruling party lawmaker had earlier been denied bail thrice by trial courts. Independent Television authorities on July 20 filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station against Rony on charge of beating up its reporter Imtiaz Momin and cameraperson Mohsin Mukul at his Topkhana Road office in the capital the same day. On August 11, two cases were filed with Galachipa Police Station in Patuakhali against the lawmaker, his relatives and party men on charge of extortion, foiling a party meeting and ransacking business establishments. Shamsuzzaman Linkon, organising secretary of Galachipa upazila AL unit and Badrul Islam Khan, president of Dakua union AL, lodged the cases. Linkon alleged that a gang led by Rony had attacked a meeting arranged by Panpatti union unit of AL at PanpattiHigh School on August 17, 2010, marking the National Mourning Day, and had foiled it. The attackers injured people who participated in the meeting and ransacked and looted a shop, owned by a Jahangir Hossain, at a nearby market, he said in the case. In the other case, Badrul claimed that the accused demanded Tk 5 lakh from Nityahari Devnath and 17 others from Ulania bazar in Galachipa on March 25, 2012 as extortion. They also snatched Tk 36,700 and three cell phones from local people on that day, he added. Abdul Baset Majumder appeared for Rony, while Deputy Attorney General Masud Hasan Chowdhury represented the government.