The Supreme Court has upheld its order that stayed bail of Sadman Yasir Mahmud, an accused of the blogger Rajeeb Haider murder case.
A five-member top court bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order after disposing of a state plea filed against the High Court order that had enlarged the accused on a six-month bail on June 1.
Sadman is now in jail as he surrendered before the trial court at the behest of the chamber judges’ order issued on June 11, BM Elias, lawyer of the accused, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Rajeeb, 26, an organiser of the demonstrations at Shahbagh demanding death for all convicted war criminals, was hacked to death in Dhaka’s Pallabi area on February 15 last year.
He used to write under the pen name “Thaba Baba” on different blogs. In his last Facebook status, he called for banning the institutions owned by the Jamaat-e-Islami, a component of the BNP-led 18-party alliance in Bangladesh.
A day after the murder, the victim’s father Nazim Uddin filed a murder case with Pallabi police station.
After two weeks, the IO arrested five NSU students, who reportedly confessed that they had killed Rajeeb upon directives of the chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a Bangladeshi follower of al-Qaeda.
On February 18 of this year, a Dhaka court took the charge sheet pressed against eight individuals including Sadman, also a student of North South University, into cognisance.