Dhaka, March 6 -- A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to Mostafa Arnab Aranya, a staff at the Dhaka University (DU) library, a day after his arrest in a case filed over harassing a female student of the university.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mehra Mahbub passed the order on a bond of Tk 1,000 after a hearing.

Earlier, Md Toufiq Hasan, a sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station and also the investigating officer of the case, produced him before the court.

Advocate Azmat Hossain stood for the petitioner at the court.

Sub-inspector Abul Kalam Azad of the General Registration Branch of the Shahbagh Police Station (Women and Children) Court said the complainant had earlier submitted an application to the Police Station for the withdrawal of ...