A Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Sunday granted bail to former Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in an attempted murder case linked to the 2024 July uprising.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain issued the order upon a bond of Tk 50,000 considering her illness, said Public Prosecutor M Omar Faruq Faruqi.

There is no legal bar to the release of the former Speaker as she has not been shown arrested in any other cases, said the court sources.

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

According to the case statement, Ashraful alias Fahim suffered bullet injuries to his left eye in the Azampur Bus Stand area of Uttara on July 18, 2024 during the mass uprising, which ultimately led to the fall of the Awami League government on August 5.

Later, he filed a case against 25 named individuals, including Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, and 120 unnamed ones.

Following the fall of the Awami League government, she resigned on September 2, 2024.