<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas has been freed from jail after nearly three and a half months of his arrest, having secured bail in all 11 cases against him.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The BNP leader walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 6:55 pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.</div><div><br></div><div>BNP leaders and activists of the senior leader of the party and his wife Afroza Abbas received him at the jail gate.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking at the jail gate, Abbas said: “Our movement for the restoration of democracy will continue.”</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on Monday, a Dhaka court granted bail to Mirza Abbas in a case over vandalising the property of the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Dhaka Judicial Magistrate Julhas Uddin granted the bail on a bond of Tk 10,000.</div><div><br></div><div>Additional Public Prosecutor Anwarul Kabir Babul opposed the bail of Abbas in the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Police arrested Abbas on October 31 last year from Dhaka’s Shaheedbagh in a case filed for sabotage under the Explosive Substances Act.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, he was sent to jail on November 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Police showed Abbas arrested in a case filed with Railway Police Station on January 24.</div><div><br></div><div>Eleven cases were filed against him centering BNP’s October 28 rally. Earlier, he secured bail from 10 cases.</div><div><br></div><div>He was shown arrested in five cases filed with Paltan Police Station and four cases filed with Ramna police station on February 1, reports UNB</div><div><br></div><div>On February 5, a court granted bail to the BNP leader in six cases, in three more cases on February 6 and in another case on February 18, over the attack on the Chief Justice's residence.</div><div><br></div><div>On February 15, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury were freed on bail.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>