BNP Joint Secretary General Gayeswar Chandra Roy was released from Dhaka Central Jail on bail on Tuesday. He walked out of the jail at about 11:00am. Earlier on Sunday, the High Court granted ad interim bail to Gayeswar in a corruption case filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC).

The trial court in Dhaka, on October 12 this year, sent him to jail after he surrendered before it in connection with the case. Earlier on January 5, the ACC filed the case against him on charges of extorting Tk 2.61 crore and concealing information of his wealth worth Tk 25.95 lakh in his wealth statement submitted to the commission on August 20 last year.

-Daily Star