The High Court (HC) on Thursday blasted deputy attorney general (DAG) Md Saiefuddin Khaled for taking a stay order from the Appellate Division’s chamber judge by providing false information about bail for an accused in a drug case.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam and Justice Kazi Ebadoth Hossain also asked Saiefuddin to submit a written explanation once the court reopened on April 21 after the Eid vacation, beginning on March 24. ‘We will pass a written order against you if your explanation is not satisfactory to us,’ the court warned the DAG.
The court said that the bail prayer of narcotics case accused M Imran from Cox’s Bazar district was posted on the list of hearings on March 11, but it could not hear his bail prayer.
Saiefuddid informed attorney general AM Amin Uddin that the High Court granted Imran bail in the case.
The High Court said that it came to know that the government had appealed against the ‘fictitious’ bail order, and the bail order was stayed by the judge.
‘How can you give such wrong information to the attorney general,’ said the court, rebuking the DAG.
‘You must be accountable for this, as misleading information went to the media because of you.’
Saiefuddin admitted his mistake.
On March 14, chamber judge M Enayetur Rahim, after hearing separate government appeals, stayed the bail of a total of 25 people, including Imran, in separate cases relating to the recovery of heroin.
The attorney general later, at a news briefing, said that the High Court did not apply its judicial mind while granting bail to a total of 25 accused on a wholesale basis for the recovery of 3 kilograms of heroin from their possession.
Without disclosing the names of the judges, the attorney general said that the bench granted bail to 12 accused on March 12–13 and the others on March 12.