A court docket at the moment time granted bail to Mahmudur Rahman, venerable performing editor of daily Amar Desh, in a case lodged over allegedly trying to abduct and assassinate ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy within the US in 2015.
Dhaka Metropolitan Classes Settle Mohammad Ash Shams Zaglul Hossain handed the expose after conserving a hearing on the matter.
“We now earn appealed against his conviction within the case at the moment time. The court docket celebrated the enchantment. Allowing a plea filed by the defence, the court docket later granted Mahmudur Rahman’s bail,” defence counsel Tanvir Ahammed Al Amin acknowledged.
The court docket of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Mahabubul Haque on 29 September sent him to penitentiary as he surrendered earlier than the court docket and pleaded for bail.
“Mahmudur Rahman modified into once sent to penitentiary as this court docket has no jurisdiction to allow him bail, interested within the time length of his sentence. The court docket, on the opposite hand, requested penitentiary authorities to method him with a division facility,” defence counsel Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah told BSS that day.
The court docket of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Asaduzzaman Nur on 17 August 2023, convicted and sentenced 5 of us including fashioned journalist Shafik Rehman and Mahmudur Rahman to seven years imprisonment.The opposite convicts within the case are Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) vice-president Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, an expat businessman living within the US.
Mahmudur modified into once tried in absentia.
Police on 3 August 2015, filed the case with Paltan police method and on 19 February 2018, filed a price sheet against the 5.
A total of 12 witnesses including Joy testified within the case on diverse hearing dates.
