The Supreme Court yesterday ordered Sadman Yasir Mahmud, who was released on bail on June 4 in the blogger Rajib Haider murder case, to surrender before the lower court within two weeks.
Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division, passed the order, staying the HC order that had granted the accused a six-month bail on June 1.
The top court’s order came after a petition was filed on behalf of the state by Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Deputy Attorney General Khurshedul Alam.
The Supreme Court lawyers Khandker Mahbub Hossain and BM Elias represented Sadman.
Rajib, an activist of the Shahbagh movement which sought capital punishment for all war criminals, was hacked to death in the capital’s Pallabi on February 15 last year.
The activist used to write on different blogs under the pen name “Thaba Baba.”
In his last Facebook status, he demanded a ban on the institutions owned by the Jamaat-e-Islami. A day after his murder, Rajib’s father, Nazim Uddin, registered a murder case with Pallabi police station.
Two weeks after the filing of the case, the investigating officer arrested five North South University students who had reportedly confessed that they had killed Rajib on orders given by the chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a Bangladesh-based group of people who allegedly sympathise with Al-Qaeda.
On February 18 this year, a Dhaka court took the charge sheet pressed against eight individuals including Sadman, a student of North South University, into cognisance.
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.
