Hours after securing bail in an attempt to murder case former Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was freed from Kashimpur Central Jail on Sunday.

She walked out of Kashimpur Women's Central Jail around 6:30 pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities, said Kashimpur Women's Central Jail superintendent Kawalin Nahar.

Earlier in the day, a Dhaka court granted bail to Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the case linked to the 2024 July uprising.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain passed the order on Tk 50,000 on bond considering her illness and gender, said Public Prosecutor M Omar Faruq Faruqi.

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.

Abdul Hamid was elected Speaker after the Awami League came to power through the 2008 general election. Following his election as President, Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was elected Speaker on April 30, 2013. Since then, she had been serving as Speaker until the government’s fall.

Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was a Member of Parliament from Rangpur-6 constituency.