Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Monday adjourned till Tuesday the hearing on a bail petition filed by Aysha Siddika Minni, wife of Rifat Sharif, who was brutally killed in broad daylight in Barguna.
The High Court bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after primary hearing on the petition.
Advocate Z I Khan Panna appeared in the court on behalf of Minni, while Deputy Attorney General Md Sarwar Hossain stood for the state. On Sunday, Minni’s lawyer placed the petition in this HC bench. On August 8, the High Court 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.
Earlier, a Barguna court also rejected Minni’s bail petition twice on July 22 and 30 respectively.
After being rejected in the trial court, Minni filed the bail 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.
