The Supreme Court chamber judge today stayed till November 20 a High Court order that granted bail to suspended UP chairman Mahmudul Alam Babu, the prime accused in the Jamalpur journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim murder case.
Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, passed the order following a petition filed by the state seeking stay on the HC order of bail.
Following the apex court chamber judge's order, Mahmudul cannot get released from jail, Assistant Attorney General Md Saiful Alam told The Daily Star.
A leave to appeal petition will be moved before the SC full bench on November 20 against the HC bail order, he added.
Attorney General AM Amin Uddin represented the state while senior lawyer Md Momtaz Uddin Fakir appeared during the hearing today.
Nadim, who was the Jamalpur district correspondent of Banglanews24.com and also the Bakshiganj upazila correspondent of Ekattor TV, died on June 15, a day after allegedly being attacked by supporters of Mahmudul Alam Babu.
Nadim's wife Monira Begum filed the case with Jamalpur's Bakshiganj Police Station on June 17 against 22 named and 20-25 unnamed persons.
Mahmudul, the then chairman of Sadhurpara Union Parishad in Bakshiganj upazila, was named as the main accused in the case.
On September 18, the HC bench of Justice Md Jahangir Hossain and Justice Mohammad Showkat Ali Chowdhury granted bail to Mahmudul following a petition filed by the accused.
