A Khulna court has granted permanent bail to Shahjalal, a man from Khulna whose eyes were gouged out after an alleged mob lynching, in a case filed over a snatching incident. Judge Arup Kumar Goswami of Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judges’ Court granted the gave the order after a hearing Monday, confirmed Shahjalal’s lawyer Mominul Islam. The man was shown arrested in a case filed by one Suma Akhter over the attempted snatching of her vanity bag near Khalishpur’s Golakhali rail line on July 18. He underwent a mob lynching there before being handed over to police, and those who were involved in the beating are responsible for damaging his eyes, claimed police. Shahjalal had been on a temporary bail, granted by a trial court.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 16, 2017 15:11 UTC