Former chief justice Khairul Haque gets bail in graft charges

High Court grants bail in five lawsuits, including charges of verdict forgery, murder, and graft

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The High Court has granted bail to former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over alleged irregularities in securing a RAJUK plot.

With this latest order on Wednesday, Justice Haque has secured bail in all five cases against him -- including charges of verdict forgery, murder, and graft -- clearing the legal path for his release from prison.

The bench of Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain and Justice Md Zakir Hossain delivered the verdict following a final hearing on the bail petition.

“There is now no legal bar to his release, unless the government initiates more charges. Usually, as soon as he gets bail in one case, another is filed,” his lawyer, Motahar Hossain Saju, told bdnews24.com.

Justice Haque, who served as the chief justice from September 2010 to May 2011, had previously secured bail in four other cases on Mar 8.

Those cases involved the killing of a Jubo Dal activist in Jatrabari during the July Uprising and the alleged forgery of the judgment that abolished the caretaker government system.

The former chief justice moved the High Court after being denied bail by lower courts.

On Oct 26, 2025, the High Court issued a rule on his bail pleas, which was finalised through Wednesday’s proceedings.

Justice Haque is most notably remembered for heading the Appellate Division bench that scrapped the 13th Amendment of the Constitution in 2011, effectively ending the non-party caretaker government system in Bangladesh.