The High Court today set April 5 for delivering an order on the issue of a woman serving in prison instead of a convict in Chattogram.

Minu Akhter, now 33, from Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram, has been in jail since 2018 instead of convicted Kulsuma Akhter, from Lohagora upazila of the same district, in a case filed for killing Kohinur Begum.

Today, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman set the date for passing an order after holding a hearing on the matter.

During the hearing, Minu Akhter's lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir prayed to the HC to direct the authorities concerned to conduct a judicial inquiry to find out how Minu was allowed to serve the jail sentence instead of Kulsuma.

He also prayed to the court to release Minu Akhter from jail instantly. 

The lawyer also sought HC order upon the law enforcers to arrest Kulsuma Akher immediately.

Shishir Manir told The Daily Star that Minu's husband, Babul Sheikh, is a vagabond and she has two sons and a daughter. Her children were present at a Chattogram court on March 22 during the proceedings, he said.

On March 24, the documents from the Chattogram court, regarding the issue, reached the HC for its decision.

Earlier on March 22, the court of Chattogram's 4th Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Shariful Alam found that Minu Akhter has been serving in jail since 2018, instead of convicted Kulsuma Akhter, in the case filed for killing one Kohinur Begum.

Kohinur, a garment worker, was killed in her rented house in port city's Rahmatganj area on July 9, 2006, following an altercation over a mobile phone.