The High Court yesterday granted eight weeks' anticipatory bail to BNP leader Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroja Abbas, president of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, in three cases filed over alleged attacks on police and causing violence in Nayapaltan on November 14.

HC also asked the couple to surrender before the lower court concerned after eight weeks in connection with the cases filed.

The bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Zafar Ahmed issued the order after hearing three petitions filed by the couple seeking bail in the cases.

“The office of the Attorney General is yet to decide whether any appeal will be moved before the apex court against the HC order”, said Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir.