Bangladesh's former parliamentary speaker released on bail

DHAKA: (Apr 13) Former parliamentary speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was on Sunday released from a high security jail on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital on a court order, five days after she was arrested on charges of an “attempted murder.”

Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court had granted bail to country's first female and three time speaker 59-year-old Chaudhury on a bond of Taka (Tk) 50,000 following a hearing in an attempted murder case linked to the July-August student-led protest of 2024.

“She was released from Kashimpur Central Jail after scrutiny of the court’s bail order,” prison department spokesperson Jannat-ul Farhad said.