The High Court has issued a rule asking why Jannati Hossain should not be granted bail in a murder case.
The bench of Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam issued the rule on Wednesday afternoon.
The court also asked the government to respond to the rule within two weeks.
Jannati’s lawyer Rumeen Farhana told the Dhaka Tribune that the court would pass its order regarding the matter after two weeks.
Earlier on December 5, the HC bench comprised of Justices Borhanuddin and Abdur Rob felt embarrassed to hear the bail petition of Jannati.
Jannati was taken into custody in an accident case, a bailable offence, filed by police after her involvement in a car crash that resulted in a fatality.
Eleven days later, despite police eyewitness accounts that described the fatal crash as an accident, the victim’s family filed a murder case against her.
The ordeal began in the early hours of July 11, when Jannati Hossain, 23, was driving her 27-year-old friend, Mostamsir Ashraf, son of former district court judge and current Inspector General of Registration (IGR) Khan Mohammad Abdul Mannan, from Uttara to Dhanmondi.
After descending from Mohakhali flyover, the car, which reportedly suffered a brake failure, ran into the back of a police van parked on the roadside opposite Shaheen School and College.
The left side of the car sustained a devastating impact and Mostamsir, who was sitting in the passenger seat beside Jannati, was severely injured and later died in hospital.
Jannati and three law enforcers who were inside the van were also injured in the accident.
Later that day Tejgaon police station Sub-Inspector Sarder Nizamul Haque, who witnessed the incident, filed an accident case against Jannati for reckless driving and hitting the police van.
Eleven days after the incident, Mostamsir’s uncle filed a murder case against Jannati, her husband, and her brothers with a Dhaka court, reportedly after having failed to convince local police to accept a murder case.
