The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered former Jatrabari police sub-inspector Sazzad Uz Zaman to surrender before the trial court in connection with a murder case linked to the 2024 July鈥揂ugust mass uprising.
Chamber judge Justice Md Rezaul Haque issued the directive after staying a High Court order that granted Sazzad鈥檚 interim bail three months ago.
The apex court order came a day after a demonstration staged by the victims鈥� families outside the secretariat in Dhaka demanding the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and two High Court judges, Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Kazi Ebadoth Hossain, who granted the bail.
The government on Tuesday filed a petition seeking a stay on the High Court order that granted bail to Sazzad.
The petition was filed shortly after Sazzad鈥檚 release from jail. It also requested permission to appeal against the High Court鈥檚 May 20 bail order.
Additional attorney general Aneek R Haque told 抖阴精品 that the attorney general鈥檚 office was not immediately informed of the bail order due to a lapse by deputy attorney general Monzur Alam Sujan, who was assigned in the HC in the case.
He said that the appeal was filed as DAG Monzur Alam on Tuesday recommended to the attorney general to appeal against the bail order in the case.
Pravin Akhter, the mother of Imam Hasan Taim Bhuiyan who was shot dead during the July uprising at Kajla on July 20, 2024 filed a murder case against five police officers with the Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate court on August 21, 2024 as Jatrabari police station refused to record a case during the July uprising.
Wari zone former deputy commissioner Iqbal Hossain, assistant commissioner Tanzil Ahmed, Jatrabari police station鈥檚 former officer-in-charge Zakir Hossain and former sub-inspector Shahadat Hossain were named in the case, where some unidentified police personnel were also made accused.
In response to the backlash, adviser Asif Nazrul clarified in a Facebook post that the High Court鈥檚 decisions were independent from the law ministry.
鈥業n a case filed by a July victim鈥檚 family, the High Court granted bail to a police officer, which has understandably angered the martyrs鈥� families,鈥� he wrote.
鈥楾he attorney general鈥檚 office has already appealed against the bail order. If the bail is cancelled, the accused officer will be re-arrested,鈥� the post stated.
