, June 2 -- A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to Anowara Begum, a retired professor of Jagannath University (JnU) in an attempted murder case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Minhazur Rahman passed the order on a Tk 500 bond when Anowara's lawyer Advocate Obaidul Islam sought bail for his client.

In the bail petition, Advocate Obaidul said that Anowara is 70 years old and served as a professor at Jagannath University for 35 years.

"She is a retired female professor and is currently unwell. According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, she is entitled to bail," he said.

A case was filed against Anowara with Sutrapur Police Station on February 16. Sujon Molla, former general secretary of the JnU unit of Chhatra Dal, the BNP's student...