BNP leader Mizanur gets bail in Joy murder plot case

A court today time (12 December) granted bail to BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan in a case lodged over allegedly attempting to abduct and homicide ousted Top Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure within the US (US) in 2015.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Md Mahbubul Haque handed the explain as Mizanur surrendered sooner than the court and pleaded for bail on the situation of filing an appeal.

On 17 August 2023, the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Asaduzzaman Nur convicted and sentenced five other folks, including frail journalist Shafik Rehman, Day to day Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman, and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan Milton, an expat businessman living within the US, to seven years imprisonment.

The many convicts within the case are Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) Vice-President Mohammad Ullah Mamun and his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on September 22 stayed Mizanur’s sentence for a 365 days.

Police on August 3, 2015, filed the case with Paltan Police Situation and on February 19, 2018, filed a stamp sheet in opposition to the five.

A total of 12 witnesses including Pleasure testified within the case on varied hearing dates.