Staff Reporter :
Aysha Siddika Minni on Sunday sought bail from another bench of the High Court (HC) in connection with the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.
Her lawyer Advocate Z I Khan Panna placed a petition seeking her bail in the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mustafizur Rahman in connection with a case filed for the murder.
Earlier on August 8, the HC Bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman, a vacation HC bench, denied bail to Aysha Siddika Minni in the case.
The bench said that the court would only issue a rule in this regard, but would not grant her bail at that stage of the case upon which Minni’s lawyers took back her bail petition.
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 seeking 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.
