Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Thursday didn’t hold hearing on the anticipatory bail petition filed by Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir who is an accused in a case filed over abetting suicide of a young girl. The High Court Bench which was expected to hear the petition announced that it would not hold hearing on any of the anticipatory bail petitions including that of Anvir until further notice due to the ongoing Coronavirus crisis.
After receiving a travel ban, Sayem Sobhan Anvir filed the petition on Wednesday seeking anticipatory bail from the High Court.
His bail petition was mentioned in the cause-list of the HC Bench of Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman as item No 14. The cause-list was scheduled to be heard on Thursday.
But a notification was issued saying that due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic situation the court would not hold hearing on any of the anticipatory bail petitions until further notice.
“Some anticipatory bail petitions have been wrongly included in the cause-list for their hearing,” the Presiding Judge of the Bench, Justice Mamnoon Rahman, told the lawyers at the beginning of the court proceedings.
Advocate Monsurul Hoque Chowdhury who appeared in the court for Anivir said that he could not move the anticipatory bail petition of his client before the HC Bench as it refused to hear any such petitions.
Anvir did not appear in the HC Bench for bail on Thursday in connection with the case, he said. Replying to a question, lawyer Monsurul Hoque Chowdhury said he would decide the next course of action after consulting with his client.
Police recovered the body of the young girl from a rented flat in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Monday night. The deceased was a college student, hailing from Cumilla. She lived in the flat alone, police said.
The victim’s sister filed the case with Gulshan Police Station early on Tuesday against Sayem Sobhan and charges of abetting suicide were brought against the businessman.
