A Chattogram court docket this present day (12 December) upheld 2 January because the date for the bail listening to of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, the spokesperson of Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagaran Jote, in a sedition case, after a plea used to be filed to bring the listening to date forward.
Metropolitan Classes Possess Md Saiful Islam handed the narrate, Public Prosecutor Mofizul Haque Bhuiyan advised The Business Long-established.
Supreme Court docket licensed reliable Rabindra Ghosh this present day submitted a vakalatnama on behalf of local licensed reliable Sumit Acharya at 2:30pm. On the replace hand, the court docket said that the enthusiastic licensed reliable must be contemporary to ascertain the vakalatnama.
“After licensed reliable Sumit expressed his incapacity to be contemporary in court docket, the decide recorded the petition and train the listening to for the previously scheduled date,” Mofizul said.
Rabindra advised TBS, “I even maintain submitted my vakalatnama signed by Chinmoy. The prosecution argues that my vakalatnama can no longer be approved with out a neighborhood licensed reliable’s endorsement.
“No law in Bangladesh prohibits an exterior licensed reliable from facing a case with out a neighborhood licensed reliable’s involvement,” he added.
On the replace hand, Chittagong District Bar Association Traditional Secretary Md Ashraf Hossain Chowdhury Razzak said, “The court docket has said that below no circumstances can he [Rabindra] fight the case. If the one who has signed the vakalatnama seeks his help, then he might well assist, nonetheless he can no longer straight away switch it in any capacity.”
Ashraf further explained that there is a High Court docket ruling on this matter. Basically based mostly on that, if a neighborhood licensed reliable engages him, then he might well assist with the case. “That is not any longer proper a rule of Chattogram bar. It’s the fashioned notice throughout Bangladesh. He [Rabindra] has come to switch the case with out following map.”
On 10 December, Rabindra submitted three petitions, including one to bring Chinmoy’s bail listening to date forward. The train objected, citing the absence of a sound vakalatnama, and the court docket as a outcome of this fact rejected the petitions.
On 25 October, a BNP chief filed a sedition case at the port city’s Kotwali Police Field, accusing Chinmoy, typically known as Chandan Kumar Dhar, and 18 others of disrespecting the national flag throughout a rally of the Hindu community within the Original Market scheme that day.
Chinmoy, the old spokesperson of Iskcon Bangladesh, used to be arrested by police at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on 25 November.
The following day, a Chattogram court docket rejected Chinmoy’s bail plea and sent him to penal complex.
On 3 December, Chinmoy’s bail listening to used to be postponed to 2 January, after no licensed reliable looked as if it will describe him.
