An accused of blogger Rajeeb Haider murder case has been freed from jail upon an interim bail for six months from the High Court.
The accused, Sadman Yasir Mahmud, who had given statement excluding himself, was released from prison on June 4 after getting the bail, his lawyer BM Elias told the Dhaka Tribune.
Meanwhile, the state has decided to challenge the bail of Sadman.
Deputy Attorney General Khurshedul Alam told the Dhaka Tribune that the state would file a petition on Wednesday with the chamber judge of the Appellate Division to stay the bail.
In the petition, they would also seek a direction for surrender of the accused.
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.
