SC stays Ragib Ali, son’s bail order

The Supreme Court today stayed for six weeks a High Court order that granted bail to industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye who were convicted of forging legal documents for grabbing an endowed property in Sylhet.

Chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order following a petition filed by the government seeking stay on the HC order.

Additional Attorney General and Acting Attorney General Momtaz Uddin Fakir told The Daily Star that Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye cannot get released from jail following the apex court order.

A Sylhet court on February 2 this year handed down six years' imprisonment each of the father-son for fabricating legal documents of Tarapur Tea Estate.

The court also fined them TK 10,000 each, in default of which they would have to serve another three months in jail.

Following a bail petition filed by Ragib and Hye, the HC on August 29 granted them bail in this case.

Advocate SM Rezaul Karim appeared for Ragib and Hye at the HC.

SM Abdul Kadir, the then assistant commissioner (Land) of Sylhet Sadar, filed two cases against Ragib with Sylhet Kotwali Police Station.