The state has decided to challenge the bail of an accused of blogger Rajeeb Haider murder case who was freed from jail on June 4 on an interim bail of six months granted by the High Court.
Deputy Attorney General Khurshedul Alam yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune that the state would file a petition today with the chamber judge of the Appellate Division to stay the bail and also seek directives for the surrender of the accused, Sadman Yasir Mahmud.
On June 1, the High Court bench 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 under the pen name “Thaba Baba” on different blogs. In his last Facebook status, he called for banning the institutions owned by the Jamaat-e-Islami, a component 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, who reportedly confessed that they had killed Rajeeb upon directives of the chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a Bangladeshi follower of al-Qaeda.
