The High Court yesterday asked for the records of a murder case from the lower court concerned as this case was not settled in last 22 years after it was filed with Sutrapur Police Station in Dhaka.
Issuing a suomoto rule, the HC asked the jail authorities to produce Md Shipon, a detained accused of the case, before it on November 8 for hearing his statement.
In the rule, the bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan asked the government to explain as to why Shipon should not be granted bail in this case.
The judges came up with the order and rule following a report broadcast by a private television channel on October 26 about sufferings of Shipon in jail and not disposal of the murder case against him in 22 years.
Cumar Debul Dey, a Supreme Court lawyer, placed the record of the TV report before the HC judges and prayed for passing necessary orders.
According to the report, a case was filed with Sutrapur Police Station on October 25, 1994 on charge of killing one Mahtab.
The following year, police submitted a charge sheet against six including Shipon to the trial court.
Shipon was arrested on November 7, 2000. The case is pending with the Environment Appellate Tribunal in Dhaka, Cumar Debul Dey told The Daily Star.
He also said Shipon is now in Kashimpur Jail-2 in Gazipur.