Mahmudur Rahman lands in jail

A Dhaka court has ordered police to send Mahmudur Rahman, former acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, to jail in a case filed for conspiring to abduct and kill former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

Earlier on Sunday (September 29) morning, Mahmudur Rahman surrendered before the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque and sought bail with a condition to file an appeal.

After hearing, the court ordered him to be sent to jail, rejecting his bail petition.

Mahmudur Rahman’s lawyer Advocate Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah confirmed the information.

Earlier, the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACCM) Asaduzzaman Noor handed down the verdict in the case on August 17 last year.

In the verdict, five people, including Mahmudur Rahman, were sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Senior journalist Shafique Rehman, Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskrit Sangtha (JASAS) leaders Mohammadullah, Rizvi Ahmed Sejar and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan were also convicted in the same case.

According to the case details, the accused persons held a meeting at home and abroad for kidnapping and kill Sajib Wajed Joy, the then ICT advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in September 2011.

Inspector Fazlur Rahman of the Detective Branch (DB) filed the case with Paltan thana on August 3, 2015 and submitted charge sheet on February 19, 2018.

A total of 12 people including Sajib Wajed Joy gave their depositions before the court in this connection.