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The High Court today granted ad-interim bail to Selina Hayat Ivy, former mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), in two separate murder cases filed in connection with the July uprising.

 

The court also issued two separate rules asking the government to explain why Ivy should not be granted permanent bail in the cases.

 

The bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher issued the orders and rules following two separate petitions filed by Ivy seeking bail in the cases.

The cases were filed with Siddhirganj Police Station in Narayanganj on charges of killing Selim Mondal and Abdus Salam during the July uprising in 2024.

Selina Hayat Ivy was shown arrested in the cases immediately after the High Court granted her bail in five other cases on February 26 this year, Senior Advocate Md Motaher Hossain Sazu, a lawyer for Ivy, told The Daily Star today.

 

Senior lawyers Sara Hossain and Motaher Hossain Sazu appeared for petitioner while the concerned deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general opposed the bail petitions during the hearing of the bail petitions.

 

Earlier on April 27, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court fixed May 3 for delivering orders on 10 petitions filed by the state challenging the High Courts that granted bail to Ivy in 10 cases filed over the July uprising.

Ivy's release from the jail depends on the Appellate Division order.

The former mayor was arrested on May 9 last year in connection with garment worker Minarul murder case and later on she was shown arrested in nine other criminal cases.

The High Court granted bail to Ivy in all the 10 cases on November 9 last year and February 26 this year following her separate bail petitions.

 

The attorney general’s office filed 10 separate petitions with the Appellate Division on behalf of the state seeking stay on the High Court orders of bail.

 

Following state’s petitions, the chamber judge of the Appellate Division on November 12 last year and March 5 this year stayed the High Court orders of bail and sent those petitions to the full bench for holding their detailed hearings.