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MNA National Desk: Supreme Court upheld a High Court order on Monday that granted bail to the Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman on charges of abducting and killing Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
A five-member bench of the Appellate Division led by chief justice SK Sinha passed the order after hearing a petition filed by the state seeking a stay on the order.
On 7 September the HC bench of justice AKM Asaduzzaman and justice Zafar Ahmed granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman. Later on 18 September, chamber judge Hasan Foez Siddique stayed the bail.
On 9 May this year, a Dhaka court sent Mahmudur to jail in the case which was filed with Paltan police station on 3 August 2015.
Police arrested Mahmudur from his Karwan Bazar office on April 11, 2013.
