HC rejects bail of Tarique's APS

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition of Mia Nur Uddin Apu, assistant personal secretary of BNP Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, concerning a Tk 21-crore bribery case involving the murder of Humayun Kabir Sabbir, a Bashundhara Group director.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with Ramna Police Station on October 4, 2007 accusing Apu, Tarique and several others of taking part of the bribe and using the rest to lift the murder charge against Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir, son of Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Sobhan Shah Alam.
The murder case was filed in July 2006, the same month Sabbir was found dead.
Leaving the country in 2007 and returning in mid-2014, Apu has been in jail since June 18 after surrendering before a Dhaka court.
On July 24 the HC issued a rule upon ACC and the government to explain why he should not be granted bail, which he had sought that month through a petition.
Yesterday's rejection came after the HC bench of Justice M Moazzam Husain and Justice Md Badruzzaman heard arguments of Apu's lawyers and ACC.
Apu's lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star that an appeal would be moved before the Supreme Court against the rejection and that all the accused, except Apu, had been granted bail.