BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury were released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday after three and a half months.

They walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 3:35pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said BNP's media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan.

He said BNP leaders and activists and the relatives of the two top leaders of the party received the duo at the jail gate.

On Wednesday, a Dhaka court granted bail to Mirza Fakhrul and Amir Khasru in a case filed over an attack on the chief justice's residence.

At least 11 cases were filed against Fakhrul in connection with the October 28 grand rally of BNP. Of these, eight were filed with Paltan police station and three with the Ramna police station.

On January 17, BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury got bail in a case filed with Paltan police station for sabotage.

On January 10, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir got bail in nine cases filed with Paltan and Ramna police stations.

On October 29, police filed a case with Ramna police station on charges of vandalism and attack on the Chief Justice’s residence during the BNP rally on October 28.

Apart from Mirza Fakhrul, 59 BNP leaders and activists, including standing committee member Mirza Abbas, were accused in the case.

Fakhrul was arrested in the case on October 29 and had been in jail since then.