A court in Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan in a case filed over allegedly attempting to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in the United States (US) in 2015.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque passed the order after Mizanur Rahman surrendered before the court and pleaded for bail on the condition of filing an appeal.

On August 17, 2023, the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur convicted and sentenced five people, including veteran journalist Shafik Rehman, Daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman, and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan Milton, an expat businessman living in the US, to seven years` imprisonment.

The other convicts in the case are Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) Vice-President Mohammad Ullah Mamun and his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on September 22 stayed Mizanur`s sentence for a year.

Police on August 3, 2015, filed the case with Paltan Police Station and on February 19, 2018, filed a charge sheet against the five.