HC verdict on ex-SC judge’s bail plea July 19

The High Court will deliver a verdict on Thursday, July 19, on a petition filed by former apex court judge Justice Md Joynul Abedin seeking bail in connection with a notice issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2010 seeking his bank statements.

Justice Joynul Abedin, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, had headed the one-man judicial enquiry into the grenade attack on August 21, 2004, on an Awami League rally at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue. His probe report had found “foreign enemy link” with the attack.

Today, the HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam fixed Thursday as the date for delivering judgment on the bail petition of Joynul Abedin.

The bench was scheduled for giving the verdict on the bail petition today. But it deferred the date until Thursday for announcing the judgment following a time prayer moved by ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan.

Earlier on July 10 last year, the HC granted anticipatory bail to Joynul Abedin in connection with the ACC notice and also issued a rule asking the government and ACC to explain why Justice Joynul should not be granted regular bail in connection with the notice. 

The court had passed the order and issued the rule following the bail petition filed by Joynul saying that he might be arrested when he will submit the bank statements.

ACC’s lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told this correspondent that there is no specific case against Joynul Abedin.