Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the case filed over the 2015 murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy, was released on bail from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail on Friday.
Kashimpur High Security Central Jail Superintendent Abdullah Al Mamun said, "On Thursday afternoon, his bail documents arrived at the prison from the court. These were later verified and scrutinised. Following the verification process, he was released from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail at around 10:15am on Friday morning."
Farabi had been imprisoned there since 2023, he said.
On 31 July this year, the High Court granted bail to Farabi.
The bench, comprising Judge Zakir Hossain and Judge KM Rasheduzzaman Raja, passed the order on 30 July. Senior lawyer SM Shahjahan represented Farabi in court, assisted by lawyer Muhammad Hujjatul Islam Khan.
Speaking on the matter, advocate Hujjatul Islam said, "The High Court accepted Farabi's appeal against the trial court verdict in 2021. Now, he has been granted interim bail. The duration of the bail will be known once the written order is issued."
Farabi, a former student of Chittagong University, has been behind bars since March 2015, when he was arrested as the key suspect in the Avijit murder.
On 26 February 2015, Mukto Mona blog founder Avijit Roy, son of late physicist Ajoy Roy, was hacked to death, while his wife Banya escaped with serious injuries after unidentified assailants attacked them with cleavers near TSC on the Dhaka University campus as they were returning home from the Amor Ekushey Boi Mela.
Avijit's father filed a murder case with Shahbagh Police Station the next day.
On 16 February 2021, a tribunal in Dhaka sentenced five members of the banned militant outfit Ansar-Al-Islam to death and another to life term imprisonment in a case over the killing of Avijit Roy.
Judge of the Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Md Mujibur Rahman handed down the verdict.
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