Khokon gets HC bail

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BNP Joint Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon

The High Court today granted a six-month bail to BNP Joint Secretary General AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon in three separate cases including Bangla Motor arson attack case.
Following the HC order, there is no legal bar to Khokons release from jail, Barrister AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a counsel for the BNP leader, told The Daily Star.The HC bench of Justice Borhan Uddin and KM Kamrul Kader came up with the order after holding hearing on three separate bail petitions in connection with the cases.Khokon also the secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association, filed the bail petitions through his lawyer yesterday.
The first case was filed for killing a police during a Hefajat-e Islam rally at Motijheel on May 5 while the second case for blasting crude bombs at Kamalapur during an opposition-sponsored demonstration on November 5. The third case was filed for an arson attack on a police requisitioned bus at Bangla Motor in the capital that left a police man killed on December 25 last year.

Shajahan passes away

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Shawkat Momen Shajahan

Shawkat Momen Shajahan, Awami League lawmaker from Tangail-8Sakhipur-Basail constituency died of cardiac arrest at his residence in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail early today at the age of 64.
As he felt sick at his Sakhipur Bazar house around 5:30am, Shajahan was immediately rushed to the local upazila health complex where doctors declared hi brought dead family sources said.
Shajahan, the four times lawmaker, was president of AL Sakhipur upazila unit.
He was elected MP from the constituency in 19861999 by-election 2008 and 2014 uncontested on AL ticket.
The body of Shajahan will be flown to Dhaka by helicopter and his first namaz-eanaza will be held at South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
He will be laid to rest beside his father on the premises of Shakhipur Residential Women College.Shajahan left behind his wife, a son and a daughter as well as a host of relatives, colleagues, friends and admirers to mourn his death.
In his student life, Shajahan was vice-president VP of the Bangladesh Agriculture University Students Association AK in Mymensingh.