The Appellate Division on Thursday upheld its chamber judge's order staying a bail the High Court had granted to former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in a civil case relating to the BDR mutiny at its headquarters in February 2009.
The seven-member Appellate Division bench presided by Justice SK Sinha disposed of the petition filed by the government against the High Court's order granting bail to Pintu on June 7.
It also ordered that Pintu's bail order would be stayed until disposal of the rule the High Court had issued on June 7 over the bail petition.
A special High Court bench rejected summarily the petitions filed by Jamaat-e-Islami amir Motiur Rahaman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and nayeb-e-amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee seeking bail in the case of killing of Rajshahi University Chhatra League activist Faruk Hossain in 2010.
The special bench of Justice Hasan Foyez Siddique rejected the Jamaat's leaders' bail petitions disposing of the spilt orders passed on March 24 by the High Court bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder.
In his order, Justice Moyeenul Islam granted bail to the leaders on the ground that the accused were not named in the first information report of the murder case while Justice Nazrul Islam, in his order, rejected the pleas saying that they should not be granted bail as the investigation was going on.
The then chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque constituted a third High Court bench for disposal of the matter.
Faruk Hossain was killed in a clash between Islami Chhatra Shibir and Bangladesh Chhatra League at the university on February 9, 2010.
The same day Rajshahi University Chhatra League president Mazedul Islam filed a murder case with the Motihar police station in this connection.
Source : New Age
