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For the last two weeks everyone in court was guessing whether the arrestees in the anti-corruption drive would be released on bail. The hearings were lengthy. The new emergency proclamations provide that arrestees cannot be freed on bail pending trial. However, one bench of the High Court Division interpreted that rule as being only applicable to the subordinate courts. At the end, it was apparent that in couple of weak cases, bail would be given. The City Mayor of Sylhet got bail. But the government tightened the net. It seems that the Chief Justice is providing full support to the Military backed interim government. He reconstituted two of the Benches who had jurisdiction to grant bail and only the mayor and the wife of a minister escaped the net.

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