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Rifat murder: Minni again seeks High Court bail

Ayesha Siddika Minni and five others were sentenced to death in 2020

Update : 08 May 2023, 12:26 PM

Ayesha Siddika Minni, who has been sentenced to death for her involvement in her husband Rifat Sharif's murder, again applied for bail in the High Court. 

One of Minni's lawyers Shahinuzzaman confirmed the matter on Monday.

Ayesha Siddika Minni previously sought bail from High Court in 2022.

The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Biswajit Debnath refused to hear Minni's bail petition when her lawyers Advocate Syeda Nasrin and Advocate Jamiul Haque Foysal made a plea before the court.

On September 30, 2020, Minni and five others were sentenced to death by District and Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman over Rifat's killing in Barguna in broad daylight in 2019.

The full verdict of the case was published on October 3, 2020, and the death reference reached the High Court Division the next day.

Rifat Sharif, 22, was hacked to death in Barguna town on June 26, 2019. He was attacked near the main gate of Barguna Government College. Surveillance camera footage showed his wife Minni apparently trying to save him from the attackers.

Rifat's father filed a murder case accusing 24 people. Although Minni was initially named as a witness, she was later arrested on July 16, 2019, and made an accused.

Sabbir Ahmed alias Nayon Bond, the main accused, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police on July 2 that year.

Minni and nine others were indicted for Rifat's murder on January 1, 2020.

Meanwhile, 14 other underage accused are being tried separately at a juvenile court for the killing.

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