Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule upon the government to explain in one week as to why Aysha Siddika Minni should not be granted bail in the case filed for murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.
The High Court Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after hearing on the bail petition.
At the same time the HC ordered the investigation officer (IO) of this case to appear in the court on August 28 with all the documents of the case and ordered the Superintendent of Police of Barguna to submit a written explanation in this court regarding his statement given before Minni’s confessional statement under Section 164.
Advocate A M Amin Uddin and Advocate Z I Khan Panna appeared for Minni in the court while Deputy Attorney General Md Sarwar Hossain stood for the state.
On Sunday Minni’s lawyer placed the petition in this HC Bench.
A HC Bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman, a vacation HC bench, on August 8 denied bail to Aysha Siddika Minni in the case.
Before that 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.
