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Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badruddin Ahmed Kamran
being greeted by his supporters in front of Sylhet Central
Jail gate as he was released on bail from the prison
yesterday. Banglar Chokh

BSS, Sylhet

Mayor-elect of Sylhet and Awami League leader Badaruddin Ahmad Kamran was released on Thursday from the prison on bail.

Officials and witnesses said Kamran walked out of Sylhet Central Jail at about 2:10 PM. He was greeted by his wife, family members and a large number of party leaders and workers.

"Insha Allah, I will make Sylhet City Corporation an accountable institution," the mayor-elect told the gathering expressing his gratitude to the city dwellers for his election before going home straight from the jail.

'Kamran was brought to Syleht jail from Sylhet Osmani Memorial Medical College Hospital on Wednesday as he was being treated there.

Kamran, who held the mayor office once before, is accused in four cases filed during the present caretaker government.

He was arrested on April 6 last year in the much-talked- about Kitchen Market case and released on bail on May 8 that year, but was arrested again weeks later under the Emergency Power Rules (EPR).

A High Court bench comprising Justice Sharif Uddin Chakladar and Justice Emdadul Haque granted him bail on August 27 in two cases, one filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission on charges of ill-gotten wealth and the other for defying the EPR.