Husband's bail stayed by SC

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed till April 1 a High Court order that granted bail to Humayun Sultan, son of former Awami League lawmaker Khan Tipu Sultan, in the murder case of his wife Shamarukh Mahajabin.

The four-member bench of the Appellate Division also asked the government to file a leave-to-appeal petition against the HC order of bail with the SC by that day. 

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The bench passed the order in response to a petition filed by the government on March 4 seeking a stay on the HC order, Assistant Attorney General Sadhan Kumar Banik told The Daily Star.

Twenty six-year-old Mahjabin was found dead at the Dhanmondi residence of her in-laws in the capital on November 14 last year.

Humayun and his parents claimed Mahjabin committed suicide but her father Md Nurul Islam alleged she was murdered by her husband and her in-laws.

On the same day, Nurul filed a murder case with Dhanmondi Police Station naming Tipu, former lawmaker from Jessore-5 constituency, the prime accused.

Tipu and his wife Jasmin Ara Begum are now on bail in the case.

Mahjabin and Humayun got married in April, 2013. She did her MBBS from Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College.