The Supreme Court yesterday finally reinstated a bail order of the High Court to Humayun Sultan Shadab, prime accused in the doctor Shamarukh Mahjabin murder case.
Humayun was also husband of Shamarukh. Through the SC order there is no bar to be freed of Humayun from the jail, sources said.
A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha dismissed an appeal placed by the prosecutor challenging the HC’s bail.
In this regard, Assistant Attorney General Sadhan Kumar Banik said Humayun, also son of former Awami League lawmaker from Jessore Tipu Sultan, would be released from Dhaka Central Jail following the order.
He also said the SC, however, did not mention the ground on which it dismissed the government appeal. The cause could be known from the written order.
On March 9, the SC primarily stayed the Humayun’s bail order as the government challenged it. Later the court asked the government to place an appeal before it in favour of its plea.
Shamarukh was found hanging from window grill of her bathroom in her in-law’s Dhanmondi home on November 13, last year. Her family members have been claiming that her in-laws killed her and staged it as suicidal incident.
Although an autopsy report of the victim stated that Shamarukh committed suicide, but her father Nurul Islam, who is a retired PWD engineer, rejected it claiming that former MP Tipu Sultan influenced the report.
Later police arrested Humayun and took him into remand although he in the meantime secured the anticipatory bail from the HC.
Shamarukh married to Humayun two years back and she was a FCPS student of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
