Former MP Awal
Sahinuddin murder: HC rejects former MP Awal’s bail
The High Court has rejected the bail of MA Awal, a former MP of Laxmipur-1 constituency, in connection with a case of hacking a person to death in the capital’s Pallabi area.
The HC bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim passed the order on Tuesday.
Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ullah confirmed that the bail had not been granted.
Advocate Ruhul Quddus Kajal was in favor of the application in the court. Deputy Attorney General Bashir Ullah was on behalf of the state.
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On May 16, one Sahinuddin was publicly hacked to death in Pallabi over a land dispute. The six-year-old son of the deceased, Mashrafe, witnessed the incident.
Aklima Begum, the mother of Sahinuddin, claimed that her son was called out of his house and killed due to a dispute over land. She filed a murder case against 20 people including Awal at the Pallabi police station. The case was later handed over to the DB.
In the case statement, Aklima Begum mentioned that on May 16 at 4 pm, two young men named Sumon and Titu called Sahinuddin out of his home, saying that the land dispute he was involved in would be settled.
When Sahinuddin reached the meeting spot in Pallabi’s D-block on a motorcycle, 14-15 people including Sumon and Titu dragged him into the garage of the house (Hs #40, Rd 31).
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Then in front of Sahinuddin's six-year-old son Mashrafe, the miscreants hacked him with machetes and Chinese axes. He was then taken out of the house and hacked to death in front of house-36 of the area.
Aklima Begum alleged that her son had been killed by the managing director of Haveli Properties Developers Limited in Pallabi’s section-12, also ex-MP MA Awal, with the help of local miscreants as part of a dispute 10 acres of land worth Tk 5 crore.
On May 20, RAB arrested Awal from Bhairab. After that Awal did not get bail in the lower court and he applied for it at the High Court.
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Former MP Awal taken to jail
Former MP MA Awal was taken to Keraniganj central jail on Wednesday evening in connection with the sensational Shahinuddin murder case in Pallabi.
Jailer Mahbubur Islam confirmed that he was taken to the jail at 7:30 pm and will be kept in a 14-day quarantine there.
MA Awal is a former member of parliament from the Lakshmipur-1 constituency.
On Thursday he was arrested by RAB along with others accused in this case.
RAB claimed the former MP to be the mastermind behind the murder.
On May 16, Shahinuddin was called up on his mobile phone and asked to go to Mirpur Section-12 on the pretext of resolving a land dispute.
When the victim reached the area around 4pm that day, the assailants attacked him before hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son.
A murder case was filed at Pallabi Police Station on May 17 against several people, including former MP MA Awal.
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