Two courts in Dhaka has granted bail to 16 private university students arrested on charges of violence and attack on police during the student protest for safer roads.
The court decision came Sunday, 12 days after they were arrested.
Meanwhile, six students are not so lucky as they did not get the bail.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Judge AKM Moinuddin gave bail to 15 students while Judge Saifuzzaman Hiru passed bail order for one student.
The students who got bail are Shakawat Hossain Nijhum, Shihab Shahriar, Azizul Karim Antor, Mashhad Murtaza Ahad, Mehedi Hasan, Fayez Ahmed, Noor Moahhmad, Azizul Haq, Md Hasan, Dewan Ahmed, Tariqul Islam, Reza Rifat Akhlaq, AHM Khaled Reza, Rashedul Islam, Mushfiqur Rahman and Iftekher Ahmed.
Registration officers of the cases confirmed the matter.
22 students of East West University, North South University, Southeast University and BRAC University were detained on Tuesday (Aug 7), when clashes broke out between students at Dhaka’s Bashundhara and Rampura.
They were formally arrested in two cases started by the Badda and Bhatara police stations the same day and produced in court when they were remanded for two days.