The High Court on Thursday granted a six-month ad-interim bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a violence case filed with Paltan Police Station on 6 January.

An HC bench comprising Justice M Nuruzzaman and Justice Jafar Ahmed passed the order when four separate petitions were filed seeking bail for him.

The bench also issued a rule upon the government to explain why Fakhrul would not be given regular bails in the four cases -- three filed with Paltan Police Station and another with Mothijheel Police Station -- on charge of torching vehicles and exploding crude bombs.

The bench asked Dhaka deputy commissioner and other authorities concerned to respond to the rule within two weeks.

Lawyer Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, AJ Mohammad Ali and Joynul Abedin stood for Mirza Fakhrul, while additional attorney general Mamataj Uddin Fakir represented the state.

On 28 December last year, miscreants set fire to a bus of Public Administration Ministry near Motijheel police camp.

Police filed a case with Paltan Police Station the following day against 43 people, including Mirza Fakhrul. 

Paltan police filed two more cases against Fakhrul Islam for torching vehicles and blasting crude bombs on 4 and 6 January this year.

Police also filed another case against him with Mothijheel Police Station on 4 January on the same charge.  

On 6 January, plainclothes police arrested Fakhrul as he came out of National Press Club after about 25 hours of stay there.