Altogether 144 people were granted bail across the country on the second day of virtual court proceedings.
According to Supreme Court sources, on Tuesday two petitions were filed with the bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan while a total of 150 were filed with the bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain.
Courts in Dhaka division granted bail to 38 people while conducting online hearings on four petitions.
In Chittagong division, 13 people were granted bail and one was rejected in the 17 virtual hearings.
In Rangpur division, hearings on 34 cases were conducted online, with 30 people being granted bail and 11 having their pleas rejected.
In Sylhet division, 38 people obtained bail in 44 cases in the virtual hearings.
In Mymensingh division, eight people were granted bail in seven online hearings.
In Khulna division, hearings in 15 cases were conducted virtually, with 18 people obtaining bail and two petitions being rejected.
Meanwhile, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has constituted a criminal bench at the High Court. The bench, headed by Justice JBM Hassan, will conduct hearings online until further orders.
Along with the new bench, the High Court division now has four virtual courts to conduct hearings in urgent cases amid the Covid-19 shutdown decreed by the government.
Earlier on Sunday, the chief justice issued directives and a user manual in line with the ordinance issued by President Md Abdul Hamid on Saturday, allowing regular court proceedings virtually in the period of the Covid-19 lockdown in Bangladesh.
As of Tuesday, Bangladesh had confirmed 16,660 coronavirus cases, with the death toll rising to 250 after 11 new fatalities were reported.
Till now the fast-spreading coronavirus has claimed more than 288,000 lives and infected more than 4,287,000 people globally, according to Worldometer.
As many as 1,544,667 people have recovered from Covid-19, which has spread to 210 countries and territories across the world.
