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DHAKA, Oct 26, 2025 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today issued a rule, asking authorities concerned to explain in two weeks, as to why the court shall not allow bail to former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in five separate cases.

Justice ASM Abdul Mobin and Justice Md Sagir Hossain passed the order, after holding hearing on a plea for bail for the former chief justice. 

Senior Advocate Munsurul Hoque Chowdhury moved the bail plea at the court, while Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman stood for the state. Barrister M Sarwar Hossain argued for Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested the former chief justice, 80, from the capital's Dhanmondi area on July 24, 2025. He was later shown arrested in a case lodged over the killing of one Abdul Qaium Ahad during the July-August Mass Uprising.

Supreme Court lawyer Muzahidul Islam earlier filed another case against him for pronouncing malicious and illegal judgments and creating false and fraudulent verdicts, driven by greed. The case was filed against Haque, also the former chairman of the Law Commission, under sections 219 and 416 of the Penal Code of 1860, on August 27, 2024.

Two similar cases were filed against him in Narayanganj. The ACC filed a case against ABM Khairul Haque in August, 2025, for taking a plot illegally from Rajuk.