The Appellate Division of Supreme Court has stayed the bail of Sadman Yasir Mahmud, an accused blogger of the Rajeeb Haider murder case who was freed from jail on June 4 on an interim bail of six months.
The court also ordered him to surrender before a trial court in two weeks.
Chamber Judge Hasan Foyez Siddiki has passed the order following the state's challenge over the bail on Wednesday afternoon.
On June 1, an HC bench comprising of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted Sadman bail.
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 with the pseudonym “Thaba Baba” on different blogs. In his last Facebook status, he called for banning the institutions owned by the Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally 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. The detained NSU students reportedly confessed that they had killed Rajeeb upon the directives of the chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a Bangladeshi follower of al-Qaeda.
Mufti Jasim, also the chief of Markajul Ulum Al Islami from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur, was arrested along with 30 of his followers at his house in Barguna on August 12 last year.
On February 18 this year, a Dhaka court took into cognisance the charges against eight persons including Sadman, a student of North South University.
The seven other accused are Mufti Jasim, Faisal Bin Nayeem alias Dwip, Maksudul Hasan alias Anik, Mohammad Ehsan Reza alias Rumman, Nayeem Sikder alias Irad, Nafiz Imtiaz and Redwanul Azad alias Rana.
