, April 12 -- Hours after securing bail in an attempt to murder case former Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was freed from Kashimpur Central Jail on Sunday.

She walked out of Kashimpur Women's Central Jail around 6:30 pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said Kashimpur Women's Central Jail superintendent Kawalin Nahar.

Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court granted bail to Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the case linked to the 2024 July uprising.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain passed the order on Tk 50,000 on bond considering her illness and gender, said Public Prosecutor M Omar Faruq Faruqi.

A Dhaka court on April 7 sent her to jail in the case following her arrest the same day.

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