The High Court has rejected an anticipatory bail plea filed by Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir in a case over the death of college student Mosarat Jahan Munia.
The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar gave the order on Wednesday as there was a specific allegation against Anvir.
However, the High Court granted anticipatory bail to Anvir’s wife Sabrina Sayem for six weeks in the case.
The bench asked Sabrina to surrender before the trial court concerned after the expiry of her bail period in the case.
In the order, the court said, “The court will not intervene in the case of the first petitioner (Anvir) for the time being as there is a specific allegation against him and 'signs of injury' were found in Munia's autopsy report. That is why we are deleting his name from the petition.”
Lawyers Yusuf Hossain Humayun and Hassan Imam appeared in the hearing on behalf of Bashundhara Groups’ managing director and his wife, while assistant attorney general Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan represented the state.
Sayem Sobhan Anvir and his wife Sabrina Sayem filed the bail petition with the High Court last week seeking anticipatory bail in the case filed against them on the charge of killing after raping college student Mosarat Jahan Munia.
The Gulshan police on April 26 recovered the body of Mosarat hanging from a ceiling fan in a rented flat at Gulshan in Dhaka.
On April 26, Mosarat’s sister Nusrat Jahan filed a case against Bashundhara MD Sayem on charges of abetting the ‘suicide’ of the college student. Later the police submitted a final report with a recommendation for clearing Sayem and others of the charges.
Nusrat later filed a fresh complaint against Sayem and the seven people with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal after the magistrate rejected Nusrat’s petition objecting to the final report.
On September 6, Nusrat Jahan filed a fresh complaint with the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 against Sayem Sobhan Anvir, his wife Sabrina Sayem and six others.
The six other accused are--- chairman of the group Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam and his wife Afroza Begum, model Faria Mahbub Piyasha, Saifa Rahman Mim, owner of the Gulshan flat Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmin.
After hearing, the judge of the tribunal, Mafroza Parveen, directed the officer-in-charge of the Gulshan Police Station to treat the complaint as a first information report and send the case to the chief of the Police Bureau of Investigation for taking a step to probe into the complaint.
In the case statement, Nusrat named Sayem as the prime accused of raping and murdering the victim. She accused the seven other people of intimidating Mosarat and assisting Sayem to commit ‘rape and murder’.
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