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Police want to show ex-CJ Khairul arrested in another July murder case
The police has petitioned the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court to show jailed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested in a murder case filed with the Jatrabari police station over a killing during the 2024 July-August mass uprising.
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Police want to show ex-CJ Khairul arrested in another July murder case
Staff Correspondent 19 May, 2026, 00:22
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque. | File photo
The police has petitioned the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court to show jailed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested in a murder case filed with the Jatrabari police station over a killing during the 2024 July-August mass uprising.Geographic Reference
Jatrabari police Subinspector Md Ibrahim Khalil submitted the application on May 16.
Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque posted for May 23 the hearing of the application in the presence of the former chief justice.
The court asked the jail authority to produce the Justice Khairul before it on May 23.
According to the case statement, victim Khobaib joined a procession with his friends under the Jatrabari flyover at about 10:00am on August 5, 2024.
The procession later moved towards the Jatrabari crossing at about 11:00am, when police opened fire, leaving Khobaib injured.
Local people rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where his father later found his body at the morgue at about 6:30pm.
Earlier, on March 30, Justice Khairul was shown arrested in two murder cases filed with Jatrabari and Adabar police stations after he had secured High Court bail in five separate cases.
The government, meanwhile, appealed against Justice Khairul’s bail in the two cases after the Appellate Division had upheld his bail in the previous five cases, said to his lawyer Motaher Hossain Sazu.
On Sunday the High Court directed the authorities not to show Khairul Haque arrested or harass him without specific case.
The police arrested Khairul at his Dhanmondi house on July 24, 2025, nearly a year after the July mass uprising in 2024 that led to the fall of the Awami League government.
He was later shown arrested in a case filed with the Jatrabari police station for the murder of Juba Dal activist Abdul Qayyum Ahad during the July movement.
Besides this case, four other cases were filed against him.
On August 27, 2024, Supreme Court lawyer Muzahidul Islam Shahin filed a case with the Shahbagh police station alleging forgery in a judgement related to the caretaker government system.
Two more cases on similar allegations were filed on August 25, 2024 with Fatulla and Bandar police stations in Narayanganj.
Khairul was accused in the three criminal cases of sedition, fraud, and judicial misconduct linked to the 2011 verdict that declared the caretaker government system illegal.
He served as the chief justice from September 30, 2010 to May 17, 2011.
Staff Correspondent 19 May, 2026, 00:22
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque. | File photo
The police has petitioned the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court to show jailed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested in a murder case filed with the Jatrabari police station over a killing during the 2024 July-August mass uprising.Geographic Reference
Jatrabari police Subinspector Md Ibrahim Khalil submitted the application on May 16.
Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque posted for May 23 the hearing of the application in the presence of the former chief justice.
The court asked the jail authority to produce the Justice Khairul before it on May 23.
According to the case statement, victim Khobaib joined a procession with his friends under the Jatrabari flyover at about 10:00am on August 5, 2024.
The procession later moved towards the Jatrabari crossing at about 11:00am, when police opened fire, leaving Khobaib injured.
Local people rushed him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where his father later found his body at the morgue at about 6:30pm.
Earlier, on March 30, Justice Khairul was shown arrested in two murder cases filed with Jatrabari and Adabar police stations after he had secured High Court bail in five separate cases.
The government, meanwhile, appealed against Justice Khairul’s bail in the two cases after the Appellate Division had upheld his bail in the previous five cases, said to his lawyer Motaher Hossain Sazu.
On Sunday the High Court directed the authorities not to show Khairul Haque arrested or harass him without specific case.
The police arrested Khairul at his Dhanmondi house on July 24, 2025, nearly a year after the July mass uprising in 2024 that led to the fall of the Awami League government.
He was later shown arrested in a case filed with the Jatrabari police station for the murder of Juba Dal activist Abdul Qayyum Ahad during the July movement.
Besides this case, four other cases were filed against him.
On August 27, 2024, Supreme Court lawyer Muzahidul Islam Shahin filed a case with the Shahbagh police station alleging forgery in a judgement related to the caretaker government system.
Two more cases on similar allegations were filed on August 25, 2024 with Fatulla and Bandar police stations in Narayanganj.
Khairul was accused in the three criminal cases of sedition, fraud, and judicial misconduct linked to the 2011 verdict that declared the caretaker government system illegal.
He served as the chief justice from September 30, 2010 to May 17, 2011.
