The High Court (HC) yesterday cancelled the bail of Md Shamsuzzaman Arif alias Bakku, the prime accused in the case of murder of Samiul Azim Wafi, a six-year-old boy.
An HC bench comprising Justice Nizamul Huq and Justice Zahangir Hossain passed the order.
Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder said the bench on February 16 granted bail to Bakku and issued a rule, asking the authorities concerned as to why Bakku should not be granted permanent bail. The court yesterday cancelled his bail after quashing the rule, he said.
According to the case statement, victim’s mother Humaira Akter Ayesha and her lover Bakku killed Samiul as he witnessed them being intimate. His body was recovered from near his house in the capital’s Adabar on June 24, 2010.
On February 1 in 2011, a Dhaka court framed charges against the duo and the trial started after seven days with the testimony of KR Azam, father of the minor boy. So far, nine prosecution witnesses have given depositions in the case.
Azam recently told the Dhaka Tribune that he received death threat from Bakku after he was released on bail from jail. The accused also threatened the victim’s father not to bring witnesses anymore to the court.
