The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld bail to former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy in the last two cases over the murders and other atrocities during the 2024 mass uprising.

The latest SC decision cleared the way for Ivy’s release from jail as it upheld her bail in the 12 cases.

Chamber judge Justice Md Rezaul Haque passed ‘no order’ after hearing separate leave-to-appeal petitions filed by the state seeking stay on her bail orders in  the last two cases in which the High Court granted her bail recently.

Ivy’s lawyer Hridoy Rahman told New Age that they expected that she would walk to freedom from the jail this week when all the bail orders would reach the jail via the trial court concerned.

On April 20, the High Court after a writ petition filed by Selina Hayat Ivy, directed the authorities not to arrest and harass her unless there was a specific case against him.

On May 10, the Appellate Division upheld the High Court’s bail orders in five cases and withdrew stay orders on bail in five other cases.

It also directed the High Court to hear and dispose of the pending rules on those five cases within six weeks.

Also on May 10, the Appellate Division bench, led by chief justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, dismissed five separate leave-to-appeal petitions filed by the state against the High Court’s verdict on her bail in the first batch of cases in which Ivy was named as an accused.

In another five cases, in which Ivy was later shown arrested although she was not initially named in the first information reports, the apex court vacated the earlier stay orders on her interim bail and asked the High Court to dispose of the related rules within six weeks.

Another lawyer of Ivy, SM Siddiqur Rahman, said that the former mayor, a prominent leader of the Narayanganj unit of the Awami League, had been in jail for nearly a year despite obtaining bail in multiple cases.

He described the order as politically significant ahead of the local government elections.

Ivy was arrested at her Narayanganj home on May 9, 2025.

According to her lawyer, Ivy was repeatedly shown arrested in seven fresh cases immediately after securing bail in the earlier five cases, effectively preventing her release from prison.

Since then, she was shown arrested in a series of murder, murder attempt, and violence-related cases linked to the mass uprising that ousted the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.

The lawyer said that although nearly a year had passed since her arrest, investigations into most of the cases were yet to be completed, prompting questions among legal observers over the prolonged prosecution process.

Initially, Ivy was shown arrested in three murder and two murder attempt cases.

After lower courts rejected her bail petitions, she moved the High Court, which granted her bail on November 9, 2025.

The state later challenged those orders at the Appellate Division, and the chamber judge temporarily stayed the bail before referring the matters to a regular bench.

Later, Ivy was shown arrested in another five cases, including four murder cases filed with the Fatullah police station and a case over alleged assault and obstruction of government duties filed with Narayanganj Sadar Police Station.

On February 26, the High Court granted her six-month interim bail in those cases and issued rules. The chamber court later stayed the bail orders on March 5 following state appeals.

In a separate development, the High Court on April 26 directed the government not to arrest Ivy in cases where she was not named unless there were specific allegations supported by police records.

The court also asked the authorities not to show her arrested in any further unnamed cases.

The order came after Ivy filed a writ petition challenging what her lawyers described as a pattern of repeated arrests in new cases.