Govt to challenge Amin Huda's bail

Following widespread criticisms, the government has taken steps to move appeals before the Supreme Court challenging a High Court order that recently granted bail to Amin Huda, who had been sentenced to 79 years' imprisonment last year by a lower court in connection with the biggest haul of Yaba tablets.
It has also taken steps to submit a prayer for directing the law enforcers to arrest Amin Huda again.
Yesterday, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told journalists that his office will file two separate appeals with the SC today seeking cancellation of the HC's bail order.
He also issued a show-cause notice against a deputy attorney general and two assistant attorneys general concerned for not informing him (Mahbubey Alam) about the HC order.
He said he was examining whether the law officers concerned of the HC bench had any negligence to oppose the bail petitions filed by Amin Huda.
On February 11, the HC granted bail to the business man for six months on health ground.
On July 15 last year, the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka sentenced 79 years' rigorous imprisonment to Amin Huda and his partner Ahsanul Haque Hasan in two cases filed with Gulshan Police Station.
On October 25, 2007, Rapid Action Battalion seized 130,000 Yaba tablets and 5,000 Yaba alternative drugs from the possession of Amin and Ahsanul at their Gulshan office in the capital.
They also seized 818 SIM cards, one sex stimulating tablet, 139 bottles of foreign liquor, three pieces of IPS, one local area network switch, 15 cellphones, a pair of handcuffs, six computer CPUs, one laptop, one gear switch, two channel boxes, three PC monitors, 2.5 litre orthophosphoric acid, one bottle dietheylethol and 10 tolas of gold.