Cox’s Bazar District Judge seeks apology unconditionally

Staff Reporter  :
Cox’s Bazar District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Ismail on Wednesday sought unconditional apology to the High Court over granting bail to nine accused in a case without following due process of law.

He tendered the apology to the High Court bench of Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice Ahmed Sohel.

Earlier on June 21, the High Court bench summoned the judge to appear before it on July 19 to explain his position over the issue. Accordingly the judge appeared before the court on Wednesday and sought apology.

Khodesta Begum Rina, Chairman of the South Mithachhari union parishad of Ramu upazila under Cox’s Bazar district, filed a case with a court on February 28 this year against former chairman of the union Mohammad Yunus Bhutto and eight others on charges of intimidation regarding occupying a land, said her lawyer Barrister ABM Altaf Hossain.

The High Court on April 11 granted bail for six weeks to the accused in the case and asked them to surrender in the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court within the time. According to the High Court’s order, the accused surrendered and sought bail in the Magistrate’s Court on May 21.

The Magistrate court denied bail to nine accused and sent them to jail. But on the same day, the accused applied for bail in the District and Sessions Judge’s Court of Cox’s Bazar. Then the District and Sessions Judge granted them bail.