Judge Mohammad Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court granted bail to Ahsan Habib, business partner of the victim Majid Alam, upon a bond of Tk 50,000 with two guarantors.

The court passed the order following a criminal appeal for bail filed by the defence lawyers against the rejection order of the lower court.

Earlier, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court rejected the bail petitions on several dates.

Moving the bail petition, Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan argued that some of the accused had, earlier, given confessional statements to magistrates on different dates but they did not mention his client's name. Moreover, his client was not a business partner of the victim and he is seriously ill, the lawyer added.

Opposing the bail petition, the prosecution said some of the accused gave confessional statements disclosing names of killers but did not mention the name of planners. Moreover, the case is now at the primary stage of investigation.

Majid Alam, 45, an Indian rice trader, was gunned down allegedly by his business partners in front of a hotel at Banani in the city on August 31.

The trader, from New Delhi, was getting into a private car owned by his business partner Ahsan Habib outside his hotel when three armed youths approaching at him and shot him dead at around 11:00am on that day.