Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Thursday did not grant bail to Aysha Siddika Minni in the case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.
After the hearing, the HC Bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman said, this court will only issue a rule in this regard, but it will not grant her bail at this stage of the case.
Then Minni’s lawyer took the petition back.
Advocate Z I Khan Panna and Barrister A M Mahbub Uddin Khokan appeared in the court on behalf of Minni, while Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir stood for the State.
Advocate Z I Khan Panna said in his submission, “Minni is a woman and sick person. If she is granted bail she will not be a harmful person for the investigation of the case. So she can get bail in this case.”
Additional Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir opposed her bail saying that Minni was involved in the murder incident seriously.
“She had an extra-marital relationship with the prime accused in the case, Nayan Bond. She acted to save her husband, Rifat Sharif, during the incident,” Momtaz Uddin said.Earlier, a Barguna court rejected Minni’s bail petition twice on July 22 and 30 respectively.
After being rejected in the trial court, Minni submitted the petition with the HC through her lawyers on August 5.
Police arrested Minni on July 16 after a daylong interrogation and produced her in the court for remand the following day. No lawyer represented Minni during the remand hearing in the court.
Rifat Sharif, a 25-year-old Internet service provider, was indiscriminately hacked by a group of youths there.
In a video footage of the incident that went viral in the social media, Minni was seen screaming and trying in vain to save her husband from the assailants.
The victim’s father filed a murder case with Barguna Sadar Police Station against 12 people on the same day.
