A High Court bench on Monday refused to grant bail to former lawmaker and Awami League leader Shamim Osman, his son Ayon Osman and three others in the Tanvir Mohammad Towki murder case.
The vacation bench of Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore and Justice Badruzzaman also declined to grant an appeal of Shamim and the four others to pass an order so that they were not arrested or harassed until completion of the investigation of the case.
Shamim’s lawyer Abdul Baset Majumder told reporters that the bench had returned the bail petition to him and he would move the regular bench after March 31 when the Supreme Court would resume after vacation.
During the hearing, the bench questioned Baset Majumder why the petitioners had sought bails as they had not been made accused in the case.
The petitioners could not be treated as accused in the case until completion of inquiry into the case as they were named in the first information report, said the court.
The bench also brushed aside Shamin and other petitioners’ complaint that they feared arrest and referred to media reports that Shamim was holding press briefings regularly about the case.
Towki, 17, an A-level student of ABC International School in Narayanganj, went missing on March 6 from the town and police recovered his body on March 8 from a canal of the river Shitalakhya.
Towki’s father Rafiur Rabbi filed a murder case without naming anyone as suspect.
On March 18, Rabbi submitted a complaint to the Narayanganj superintendent of police accusing seven people, including Shamim and his son Ayan, in the case.
In his complaint, Rabbi said that Shamim, Ayon, Zahirul Islam Parvez alias Kangaru Parvez, Mizanur Rahman Sujan, Rajib Das, Saleh Rahman Simanta and Rifat, and eight to 10 unidentified people had killed his son.
The accused were not named in the case primarily as he was depressed mentally after the killing of his son, said Rabbi in the complaint.
Lawyer Baset Majumder prayed for bail for Shamim, his son, Zahirul, Mizanur and Rajib saying they were not named in the first information report of the case.
Baset said that the petitioners feared arrest after Towki’s father filed the complaint against them, which they said was politically motivated. (Source)
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