Ex-MP, wife get bail, son on remand
The High Court yesterday granted a four-week anticipatory bail to former Awami League lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan and his wife Jasmine Ara in a case filed for killing their daughter-in-law Shamarukh Mahjabin.
The bench of Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq and Justice Akram Hossain Chowdhury passed the order after hearing their bail petition.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday placed Mahjabin's husband Humayun Sultan on a three-day remand in connection with the murder case filed by her father Nurul Islam.
Fazlul Huq Khan Farid, a lawyer for the accused, told reporters that the HC granted the anticipatory bail, considering the statement of the first information report (FIR) where there was no specific allegation against his clients.
After four weeks, the accused will surrender to the Dhaka court, he added.
The Supreme Court has earlier made different observations about such HC orders that grant anticipatory bail to the accused in criminal cases.
The Appellate Division in February this year expressed disappointment at an HC bench for “failure to follow its guidelines” in granting anticipatory bail to BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.
26-year-old Mahjabin was found dead at Dhanmondi residence of her in-laws in the capital on Thursday.
Humayun and his parents claim she committed suicide but her father Nurul, an assistant engineer of Power Development Board in Jessore, alleged that she was murdered by her husband and in-laws.
On the same day, Nurul filed the case with Dhanmondi Police Station naming Tipu, the former lawmaker from Jessore-5 constituency, the prime accused.
Mahjabin and Humayun had got married in April last year. She did MBBS from Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College and was preparing for FCPS.
On Friday, Sub-inspector Shariful Islam of Dhanmondi Police Station, also investigating officer of the case, had produced Humayun before the court with a 10-day remand prayer.
Humayun, who practices law at the HC, was placed on the remand yesterday.
PROTESTS ON
Mahjabin's friends, doctors and interns of holy family hospital yesterday formed a human chain in front of the hospital, seeking justice for her.
They say she was “murdered”.
Many of them said they were also active on the social media to ensure that her “killers” do not go unpunished.
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