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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.​

 

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Appellate Division upholds bail for ex-CJ Khairul Haque in July murder charges

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Published :
May 20, 2026 21:25
Updated :
May 20, 2026 21:25

The Appellate Division has upheld the High Court’s (HC) bail orders for former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in two separate murder cases linked to deaths during the July Uprising.

Chamber Judge Justice Md Rezaul Haque passed a "no order" on Wednesday following a state petition that sought a stay on the HC’s bail granted in cases filed at Jatrabari and Adabor police stations.

The ruling effectively keeps the HC’s bail orders active.

"The High Court granted bail to Justice ABM Khairul Haque in these two cases on May 10," his defence counsel Motahar Hossain Saju told bdnews24.com.

Lawyer Saju said while Justice Khairul was named in the first information report (FIR) of the Adabor murder case, his name was not included in the primary FIR of the Jatrabari case.

Following bail in five previous cases, he was formally shown arrested in the two fresh murder cases on Mar 30, 2026.

On May 12, the HC bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher granted him interim bail, which was challenged by the state.

Justice Khairul’s son Ashik ul Haque also filed a writ petition challenging the legality of repeatedly implicating his father in successive cases purely for harassment.

On May 17, the HC ordered law-enforcing agencies not to arrest or harass the former top judge without a specific, substantiated case.

On Apr 28, an Appellate Division bench headed by the chief justice upheld Khairul’s bail in five other cases.

These include the murder of Jubo Dal activist Abdul Kaiyum Ahad in Jatrabari during the mass uprising, three cases accusing him of forging the caretaker government judgment, and a plot-allotment forgery case initiated by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Justice Khairul was arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police from his Dhanmondi residence on the morning of Jul 24, 2024.

He was sent to prison later that night after being shown arrested in the Jubo Dal activist murder case and has remained behind bars since.

Khairul assumed office as the 19th chief justice of Bangladesh on Sept 30, 2010, and retired on May 17, 2011.

On May 10, 2011, just days before his retirement, an Appellate Division bench led by him declared the 13th Amendment to the Constitution illegal.

This historic verdict effectively abolished the non-party caretaker government system for national elections.

Following his retirement, the then Awami League government appointed him chairman of the Law Commission on Jul 23, 2013.

He was reappointed to the post for multiple terms.

He resigned from the Law Commission on Aug 13, 2024, a week after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina administration in the face of a student movement.​