A Dhaka metropolitan court on Saturday showed detained former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque arrested in another case filed over a murder during the July-August 2024 mass uprising in the capital’s Jatrabari area.

Dhaka additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Jatrabari police subinspector Md Ibrahim Khalil on May 16.

Khairul, aged 80 years, was brought to the court in a wheelchair during the hearing on the police petition.

Opposing the petition, defence lawyers Mustafizur Rahman Khan and Shamim Haider Patwary argued Justice Khairul had earlier been made an accused in a case filed with the Adabor police station and was now also shown arrested in a Jatrabari police station case over incidents that allegedly took place at the same date and time.

They argued that one person could not be involved in two offences at two places at the same time.

The lawyers also said that Justice Khairul was under police protocol at the time of the reported incident as he was serving as the Bangladesh Law Commission chairman.

They told reporters that they would move the High Court, claiming that Khairul had been shown arrested in violation of a previous High Court directive that barred police authorities from arresting or harassing him in any case in which he was not specifically named.

The case was filed on November 16, 2024 by Jubayer Hossain, brother of victim Khuaib Hossain, against 88 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Awami League leaders and activists and several unidentified people.

According to the case statement, Khuaib Hossain, 20, was shot dead under the Jatrabari flyover at Kajla crossing on August 5, 2024 during the mass uprising.

Khairul was not named in the first information report. The police told the court that his involvement emerged during the investigation.

‘Prima facie evidence of his involvement has been found, and showing him arrested is necessary for a fair investigation,’ investigation officer Ibrahim Khalil said in the forwarding report submitted to the court.

Earlier, on May 18, the magistrate ordered jail authorities to produce Khairul before the court on May 23 for the hearing on the police petition.

The order came after the Appellate Division upheld Khairul’s bail in all seven cases — three linked to July movement killings, three related to allegations of forgery and fraud over the abolition of the caretaker government system, and one concerning allegations of corruption in obtaining his residence.

The latest order also came days after the High Court on May 17 directed the government and the police not to harass or show Khairul arrested without a specific case.

Police arrested Justice Khairul from his Dhanmondi house on July 24, 2025.

He was initially arrested in a Jatrabari police station case filed over the killing of Juba Dal activist Abdul Qayyum Ahad during the July movement.

Besides the murder cases, Khairul also faces multiple criminal cases over the 2011 Supreme Court verdict that scrapped the caretaker government system.

On August 27, 2024, Supreme Court lawyer Muzahidul Islam Shahin filed a case with the Shahbagh police station alleging forgery in the verdict. Two similar cases were later filed with Fatulla and Bandar police stations in Narayanganj.

Khairul, who penned the caretaker government scrapping verdict after his retirement, served as the chief justice of Bangladesh from September 30, 2010 to May 17, 2011.