Anticipatory bail in 7 cases of sacked mayor of Gazipur Jahangir

The High Court has granted anticipatory bail to the sacked Mayor Jahangir Alam of Gazipur City Corporation. He was granted this bail in 7 cases filed in different parts of the country on allegations of controversial comments about the Liberation War and Bangabandhu. A High Court bench granted him bail for six weeks on August 4. Jahangir Alam's lawyer gave this information on Monday (August 22).

A video of Mayor Jahangir Alam's conversation secretly recorded in September last year went viral on social media Facebook.

Awami League leaders and workers complained that controversial comments were made about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and some important leaders of the district. In this context, Jahangir Alam was dismissed from the post of General Secretary of Gazipur Metropolitan Awami League and expelled from the party's primary membership at the Central Executive Committee meeting of Awami League in November.

Jahangir Alam was temporarily suspended from the post of mayor from the local government department on September 25. Later, defamation and digital security law cases were filed against him in different parts of the country. Meanwhile, dismissed Mayor Jahangir Alam filed a petition in the High Court against this dismissal.