The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail for two months to detained Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran in connection with the kitchen market graft case. Granting the bail, a division bench comprising Justice Nozrul Islam Chowdhury and Justice SM Emdadul Haque issued a rule upon the government to explain why he should not be granted regular bail.Army-led joint forces arrested Kamran, also city Awami League president, on April 6. Ekramur Reza, an assistant inspector of the now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption, had filed the case with Kotwali Police Station, Sylhet, on May 8, 2003. According to the case, the mayor in connivance with others leased out the city's Shibganj kitchen market, "violating the rules and misappropriating about Tk 23.5 lakh", for construction of the market.