Staff Correspondent

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a High Court order granting bail to former lawmaker Major (retd) Akhtaruzzaman in a case filed over allegedly obstructing government work and misbehaving with officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Rezaul Haque passed the order, rejecting a petition filed by the state challenging the High Court bail.

With the apex court order, there is no bar to Akhtaruzzaman’s release, said his lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir.

Earlier on Sunday, the High Court granted bail to Akhtaruzzaman, who was expelled from BNP several times and joined Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in December 2025, in the case.

On October 26, the Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court-5 rejected his bail petition.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested the former lawmaker from his residence in the Dhaka Cantonment area on October 2. The following day, a court placed him on a one-day remand for interrogation.

After the remand, he was produced before a court on October 4, which rejected his bail petition and sent him to jail.

The case was filed over an incident at the airport on October 1, when passengers arriving from Madinah on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight faced a shortage of luggage trolleys and delays in collecting their baggage.

According to the case statement, Akhtaruzzaman allegedly verbally abused and threatened Airport Executive Director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad and assaulted security supervisor Warrant Officer Mohammad Kamal Uddin.

He was also accused of throwing bottles of Zamzam water from passengers' trolleys and behaving aggressively towards a Biman representative.