Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was released from jail on Wednesday after securing bail in all nine cases filed against him.
He walked out of Keraniganj Special Jail in the afternoon, his lawyer Motahar Hossain Saju confirmed.
The release came after the Appellate Division’s Chamber Court on Monday upheld the bail granted to Justice Khairul.
The state had sought a stay on the High Court’s interim bail orders in cases filed under the attempted murder and explosives control laws. After hearing the petition, Chamber Judge Md Rezaul Haque passed a “no order”.
According to Khairul’s lawyer, nine cases have been filed against the former chief justice and he has obtained bail in all of them.
As he was not shown arrested in any other case as a named accused, there was no legal barrier to his release, the lawyer said.
The attempted murder case involving restaurant worker Ujjal Mia was filed on November 25, 2025, although Khairul had already been in jail since 27 April of the same year.
On 17 May, the High Court directed the authorities not to show the former chief justice arrested or harass him in any case without specific grounds.
On 9 August, an Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury upheld the High Court order.
The following day, a High Court bench comprising Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher granted Khairul bail in the attempted murder case.
Of the nine cases, three allege irregularities and fraud in the process of abolishing the constitutional provision for a caretaker government during national elections.
The remaining six cases relate to killings and an attempted murder during the July-August 2024 mass uprising.
Khairul Haque became Bangladesh’s 19th chief justice in 2010 and retired in May 2011.
In 2013, he was appointed chairman of the Law Commission. He resigned from the post on 13 August 13, 2024, eight days after the Awami League government fell amid a student-led mass uprising.
Police arrested him from his Dhanmondi residence on 24 July last year. He had remained in custody since then.
