The High Court (HC) yesterday stayed for two weeks a Chittagong court order that directed the jail authorities to produce detained Lutfozzaman Babar, former BNP state minister for home, to that court today (October 13) in connection with ten-truck arms haul case.
An HC bench of Justice Abdul Awal and Justice FRM Nazmul Ahsan passed the order following a petition filed by Babar, now in Banga-bandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital for treatment.
He filed the petition with the HC on October 7 stating that he his very much sick and his life will fall in danger if he is shifted from the hospital.
Babar's lawyer Advocate Shah Monjurul Hoque yesterday told The Daily Star that his client would not be produced in the Chittagong court on Wednesday following the HC order.
Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Chittagong on October permitted the police to show Babar arrested in the case linked to the country's largest ever arms haul in Chittagong on April 2, 2004, and ordered the jail authorities to produce him before the court on October 13.
Barrister Rafique-ul Huq appeared for the petitioner, while Additional Attorney General MK Rahman argued for the government.