SC extends stay on Shakila Farjana's bail

The Supreme Court yesterday extended the stay on bail of lawyer Shakila Farjana, accused of funding militancy, until March 20.

A five-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order following two government petitions seeking a stay on the HC verdict.

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The apex court also asked the government to move a leave-to-appeal petition before it against the HC verdict that granted bail to Shakila. Earlier on February 22, HC granted bail to Shakila in two cases.

On February 23, the chamber judge of the SC stayed the bail and placed it for a full bench hearing yesterday.

Shakila along with two other lawyers--Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon--were arrested from the capital's Dhanmondi for their alleged involvement in funding a Chittagong-based militant outfit, and shown arrested in the two cases filed on February 20 last year.