The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Amid a flurry of media reports on him, Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu of Old Dhaka yesterday came out of jail into the field to run the race for a seat in parliament at the forthcoming polls.

The BNP candidate for the December 29 parliamentary elections from Dhaka-7 constituency was set free from Kashimpur jail at 12:45 pm on bail.

On February 15 last year, when a crackdown on the political arena was on steam following the January changeover, Pintu, the former BNP lawmaker from this constituency, was sent to jail after he surrendered to a Dhaka court to seek bail in two cases for attempted murder and theft.

The student leader-turned-politician, wanted in several criminal cases in the changed times, had been evading arrest since the incumbent caretaker government launched the countrywide hunt for bigwigs on charges of corruption and serious crime.