The High Court on Wednesday passed split order on the bail petitions of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka south city Mirza Abbas in two violence cases.
Senior judge of the two-member bench, Justice Quamrul Islam Siddique, granted bail for three weeks while the other judge, Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore, rejected his bail petitions and asked him to surrender before the lower court at once.
The matter would now be sent to the Chief Justice to assign a High Court judge for disposal of the split order, said the court.
The court also said police cannot arrest Mirza Abbas in the two cases – one of which filed with Motijheel police station on January 4 and another with Paltan police station on December 28, 2014 – until the split order was disposed of by the third judge.
The court, however, refused to hear another petition Abbas filed seeking bail in a corruption case and said that it had no jurisdiction to hear the bail petition in corruption cases.
A warrant was pending against Abbas, a BNP standing committee member, in the corruption case.
Earlier on April 13, Abbas surrendered to the High Court seeking bail in the three cases and it was his first appearance in public since January when the BNP-led alliance began non-stop blockade of transports.
Abbas has not turned up before the returning officer to collect or submit his nominations and his wife has been campaigning for him in the city elections slated for April 28 fearing that he might be arrested in the three cases.
Source: New Age
From the very outset it was presumed to be a politically motivated verdict as directed by the Executive.
That also showed that all the judges are not obedient sycophants who have shown courage by refusing to toe the line and passed a verdict that his/her conscious dictates for the sake of justice. Wee know wicked Hasina would now turned to the judge and would try to teach him a lesson as in such all other cases!