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8 lifers already out on HC bail

SC hearing on govt petitions against granting bail to 11

Ashutosh Sarkar
Eight persons, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in different cases by trial courts, have already got released from jails on bail granted by the High Court recently.
The attorney general's (AG) office informed the chamber judge of the Supreme Court about this yesterday during the hearing on its petitions for permission to appeal against the HC bail orders for 11 such convicts.
Chamber Judge Justice Md Abdul Aziz however stayed for six weeks the HC bail orders for three other convicts, now in different jails.
The AG said his office will take a legal move to bring those
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The judge also asked the government to file regular leave to appeal petitions with the SC against the HC orders within six weeks.
The three convicts are Ataur Rahman of Narsingdi, Shamsu Gayen of Munshiganj andAsmanAliofDinajpur.
The chamber judge however dropped from hearing list the leave to appal petitions concerning eight convicts since they have already been released on bail.
The eight convicts are Md Sharif of Manikganj, Hasmat Ali and Suku Mandal of Jamaipur, Raihan Biswas of Rajbari, Imtiazur Rahman of Sylhet. Abdul Wadud of Satkhira. Abul Hashem of Netrakona and Syed Mazharul Hossain Ranju of Dhaka.
Deputy AG Motahar Hossain Saju, assisted by assistant AGs Ekramul Huq and ABM Altaf Hossain, moved the petitions. But no lawyer was present for the convicts during the hearing.
The AG. Mahbubey .Alam, told The Daily Star that his office would soon move peti-
tions in the SC for turning down the HC orders, and directing the convicts to surrender before the trial courts.
He said his office is collecting information on how many convicts have got released front jails following the bail orders passed by the HC bench comprised of Justice AFM Abdur Rahman and lustice Md Emdadul Haque Azad on November 18and 19.
The bench granted bail to over 700 people in two days. Of them, at least 40 had been serving life term for convictions in 90 cases, he said.
Asked whether the convicts released on bail can leave the country, Mahbubey Alam said they might do so to avoid punishment. The government will take steps to prevent them fromgoingabroad.
"We have to inform the authorities of airports concerned so that the convicts cannot go out of the country," he said.
The chief law officer of the state avoided a direct reply when asked if any of the convicts have already left the country.