Online Desk  :  Former superintendent of police Babul Akhtar, one of the main accused in his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case, secured bail on Wednesday. The High Court bench of Justice Md Atoar Rahman and Justice Ali Reza granted the bail after hearing. Now, Babul Akhtar has no legal bar to walk out. Advocate Shishir Monir was present in the court during the hearing on behalf of Babul Akhtar.

On August 14, Babul Akhter submitted a petition before the court of Chittagong Third Additional Sessions Judge Md Jashim Uddin seeking bail. Later on August 18, his bail prayer was rejected. On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul’s wife Mitu at the port city’s GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akter, 7, at the pickup spot for his school bus.

Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men. The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu’s father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP’s mishandling of the case. On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison.