Comilla, June 15 (UNB) –BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was released from Comilla central jail Friday morning.

BNP leaders and activists received him with garland when he came out from the jail at about 9:15 am. They chanted various slogans at that time.

Earlier on Thursday night, nine opposition leaders including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were freed on bail from different prisons in Dhaka and Gazipur.

On May 16, a Dhaka court sent the BNP leaders to jail rejecting bail after they surrendered before it following High Court order. They were arrested in connected with two cases- twin blasts at Secretariat during BNP`s nationwide hartal on April 29 and torching of a bus in front of the Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) also during the dawn-to-dusk shutdown.

On Thursday, Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Zahurul Huq granted bail to Mirza Fakhrul Islam and 15 other opposition leaders and also withdrew production warrants (PW) issued against them.

The BNP acting secretary general and 15 other leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance were held in the two cases last month.