Ex-CJ Khairul sent to jail after remand

A Dhaka court sent former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to jail today on completion of his seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulation of the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman passed the order after Md Khaleque Miah, a sub-inspector of Shahbagh Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court after his remand period ended in the case.

The IO also appealed to the court to confine him in jail until the investigation is completed.

On July 30, another Dhaka court placed him on a seven-day remand after he was produced before it with a 10-day remand prayer.

Today, no lawyer was present at the court to defend him.

On August 27 last year, Supreme Court lawyer Muhammad Mujahidul Islam filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station under sections 219 and 466 of the Penal Code, accusing Khairul.

On July 24, a team of the Detective Branch of police arrested Khairul from a house in Dhaka's Dhanmondi.

On the same day, he was sent to jail in connection with a case filed over the killing of Jubo Dal activist Abdul Kaiyum Ahad, 16, in Jatrabari on July 18 last year.

On July 29, he was shown arrested virtually in a case filed with Fatullah Police Station in Narayanganj for issuing an illegal verdict and fabricating a judgment that abolished the caretaker government system.

The case filed by Abdul Bari Bhuiyan, former president of Narayanganj Bar Association, also includes sedition charges against her.