Mahajabin murder: SC upholds HC bail for husband

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Humayun Sultan, son of former Awami League lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan, in the murder case of his wife Shamarukh Mahajabin.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed an appeal filed by the government challenging the HC’s bail order.

Assistant Attorney General Sadhan Kumar Banik told The Daily Star that there is no legal bar for Humayun’s release on bail from Dhaka Central Jail following the SC order.     

The apex court did not mention the ground on which it dismissed the government appeal, Banik said adding that it might be mentioned in the written order.

The Supreme Court on March 9 stayed the High Court of bail to Humayun and asked the government to file an appeal with this court against the HC order.

Twenty six-year-old Mahjabin was found dead at the Dhanmondi residence of her in-laws in the capital on November 14 last year.

Humayun and his parents claimed Mahjabin committed suicide but her father Md Nurul Islam alleged she was murdered by her husband and her in-laws.

On the same day, Nurul filed a murder case with Dhanmondi Police Station naming Tipu, former lawmaker from Jessore-5 constituency, the prime accused.

Tipu and his wife Jasmin Ara Begum are now on bail in the case.

Mahjabin and Humayun got married in April, 2013. She did her MBBS from Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College.