The Supreme Court today stayed the High Court orders that granted bail to seven convicts in a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002. Chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the stay order following a petition filed by the state, seeking
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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the bail granted by the High Court on Tuesday for seven activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who were jailed for up to four years and six months on charges of attacking a motorcade of Awami League president and the then opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina, in 2002 in Satkhira.
Chamber judge Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order and set Sunday for further hearing on government’s appeal by the full court of the Appellate Division.
The convicts who were granted bails for six months include former Satkhira Bar Association general secretary Abdus Sattar, SC lawyer Abdus Samad, Golam Rasul, Rakib, Zahirul, Shahabuddin and Monirul Islam.
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The High Court today granted bail to seven convicts in a case filed over the attack on motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir Lytton granted the bail following separate petitions filed by the seven convicts.
The convicts are lawyers Abdus Sattar and Abdus Samad, Golam Rasul, Rakib, Zahirul, Shahabuddin and Monirul Islam, defence lawyer AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon told The Daily Star.