Ivy denied bail in another July uprising murder case

Published : Thursday, 5 March, 2026 at 9:25 PM Count : 37

A Narayanganj court today rejected the bail petition of former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Salina Hayat Ivy in a murder case filed over the death of Selim Mondol during the July uprising in 2024.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Selina Khatun passed the order following a hearing on a bail petition this afternoon, said Inspector Abdus Samad, in charge of the court police outpost.

On February 26 this year, police applied to show Ivy arrested in the murder case of Selim Mondol, 29, filed with Siddhirganj Police Station. The court approved the plea on March 2, Inspector Abdus Samad said.

Speaking to reporters, Ivy’s lawyer Advocate Awlad Hossain said the investigation officer failed to present any reasonable grounds before the court.

“Even then, the court denied bail. She has been shown arrested in this case only to harass her. Through such false cases, a message is being sent to the nation that harassment through false charges still exists, and the rule of law is absent in the country,” he said.

The High Court on February 26 granted Ivy interim bail in five cases, but police applied to show her arrested in Selim Mondol murder case the same day, said the lawyer. She has been in jail for nine months.

According to case documents, a multi-storey building in Siddhirganj was set on fire during clashes between protesters and police on July 20, 2024. Three workers, including Selim, who were doing interior decoration work at the Shimrail branch of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited on the third floor of the building, were burned to death. Their bodies were recovered from the building three days later.

Selim was a resident of Char Jagannathpur village in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia. His father, Wazed Ali, filed the murder case on June 6 last year.

Following the fall of the Awami League government amid the mass uprising in 2024, the then-interim government removed Ivy from the post of mayor on August 18.

A senior vice-president of the Narayanganj district unit of the Awami League, Ivy was the country’s first elected female mayor and had been elected mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation for three consecutive terms.

Police arrested the former mayor from her residence in Deobhog area of Narayanganj city early on May 9 last year. Since then, she has remained in prison.

FP/MI