Staff Correspondent | Published: 14:43, May 27,2021
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the bail granted by the High Court on Tuesday for seven activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who were jailed for up to four years and six months on charges of attacking a motorcade of Awami League president and the then opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina, in 2002 in Satkhira.
Chamber judge Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order and set Sunday for further hearing on government’s appeal by the full court of the Appellate Division.
The convicts who were granted bails for six months include former Satkhira Bar Association general secretary Abdus Sattar, SC lawyer Abdus Samad, Golam Rasul, Rakib, Zahirul, Shahabuddin and Monirul Islam.
Attack on Hasina’s motorcade: former BNP MP, 2 others get 10 years’ imprisonment UNB, Satkhira UNB, Satkhira
A Satkhira court today sentenced former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib and two others to 10 years imprisonment in a case filed over the attack on a motorcade of the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002.
The court also sentenced 47 others to different jail terms in the case.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Humayun Kabir delivered the verdict while 34 accused, out of 50, were present in the dock.
Sixteen others accused of the case, including former councillor Abdul Kader Bacchu, are absconding.
Sheikh Hasina’s convoy attack: Ex-BNP MP among 50 jailed in Satkhira
A Satkhira court has jailed 50 people, including former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, for varying terms in a case filed over the 2002 attack on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s convoy in Kolaroa.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Humayun Kabir delivered the verdict while 34 accused out of 50 were present in the dock.
All of the accused are activists and workers of the BNP, with the former MP and two others facing 10 years in prison.
On January 27, the court fixed February 4 for delivering its judgment in the case.
The convicts also include Kalaroa’s former mayor Akhtarul Islam, Satkhira Bar Association’s former general secretary advocate Abdus Sattar, advocate of Supreme Court Abdus Samad, three former UP chairmen Ashraf Hossain, Rakibul Islam and Rabiul Islam and other activists of BNP.