Court rejects ex-BNP lawmaker's bail

A Dhaka court rejected a bail petition filed by former BNP lawmaker Mofiqul Hasan Tripti in a case filed over the murder of Prof Aftab Ahmed, former vice-chancellor of National University.

The former lawyer was arrested by CID from his Banani residence on August 8. The next day, he was produced before a court with a 10-day remand prayer.

Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Fahd Bin Amin Chowdhury yesterday held a short hearing and kept a remand prayer in the file, but did not pass any order in this regard as a writ petition on the matter is pending with the High Court.

On May 29 last year HC granted an ad-interim bail to Mofiqul in this case and also directed law enforcement agencies not to arrest him without a warrant in this regard, his lawyer Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder said.

Yesterday he also produced the HC bail document to the court in support of his arguments.

The arrest of the former lawmaker on August 8 by CID was a violation of the HC order, the lawyer also argued demanding immediate release of the BNP leader.   

On September 23, 2006, three unidentified youths shot Prof Aftab, a senior professor of political science at Dhaka University (DU), entering his Fuller Road residence on DU campus.

He was rushed to Samorita Hospital with two bullet wounds and later transferred to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), where he succumbed to his injuries four days later.