Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali Reza of the Speedy Trial Court-6 passed the order following separate bail petitions filed by the defence lawyers.

The court also directed the authorities concerned to publish an advertisement in a national daily asking two fugitives -- Asaduzzaman Asad and AKM Azad Swadhin -- to appear before it to face trial.

Earlier, the same court had rejected the bail petitions of the accused thrice saying that the arrestees were caught red-handed from the spot while they were creating obstacles for the tender bidders from buying schedules.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on August 10 pressed charges against 11 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders and activists.

The investigation officer (IO) later dropped names of five others, including a fugitive from the charge sheet, as their names and addresses, given by four accused in their confessional statements, were not correct.

They told a metropolitan magistrate on August 20 that Shaikot and Asad, two JCD leaders of Fazlul Haq Muslim Hall of Dhaka University, engaged them to obstruct buying and dropping of tender schedules for jobs worth around Tk 400 crore.

The last date for buying the schedules for the three projects under the development budget was August 1, while the next day was the deadline for dropping the tender schedules, which were being sold at 36 places across the country, sources said.