Dhaka Aug 6 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Monday granted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia six months interim bail in a 2015 arson case.
A High Court bench of Justices A.K.M. Asaduzzaman and S.M. Mujibur Rahman granted the bail following an appeal filed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chair reports The Daily Star newspaper.
Khaleda however cannot be released from jail following Monday s order as she is under arrest in some other cases also.
Eight people were killed and many injured after a bus was torched in Comilla city s Chauddagram area on February 2 2015 during a BNP protest.
On February 8 Khaleda was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

--IANS ksk/bg