Stay on SC lawyer Shakila’s bail extended

Supreme Court today extended the stay order on the bail of Supreme Court lawyer Shakila Farjana, accused of funding militancy, for another round of remand.

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A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order following two government petitions seeking stay on the High Court verdict.
High Court on February 22 granted bail to Shakila in two cases.

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On February 23 following a government petition, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division stayed the HC verdict.
The Appellate Division on February 29 extended the chamber judge’s order till today.

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Shakila along with two other lawyers, Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon, were arrested from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area in August last year for their alleged links to funding a Chittagong based militancy unit.
Later they were arrested in two cases filed against them on February 20 last year.