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–August uprising.
Chamber judge Justice Md Rezaul Haque issued the directive after staying a High Court order that had granted Sazzad interim bail three months earlier.
The government sought the stay through a petition filed on Tuesday, shortly after Sazzad’s release from jail, also requesting permission to appeal the High Court’s May 20 bail order.
The move came a day after victims’ families staged a protest outside the Secretariat in Dhaka, demanding the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and the two High Court judges—Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman and Justice Kazi Ebadoth Hossain—who granted the bail.
Additional attorney general Aneek R Haque told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the Attorney General’s 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.
In response to the backlash, adviser Asif Nazrul clarified in a Facebook post that the High Court’s decisions are independent of the law ministry.
‘In a case filed by a July victim’s family, the High Court granted bail to a police officer, which has understandably angered the martyrs’ families,’ he wrote.
He added that while the High Court was a superior court, its decisions were open to legal challenge.
‘The attorney general’s office has already appealed the bail order. If the bail is cancelled, the accused officer will be re-arrested,’ the post stated.
