Court rejects Mollah Jalal’s bail plea 

A Dhaka court has rejected a bail plea for Molla Jalal, former president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), in a case lodged for allegedly abducting and attempting to rape a singer.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arobia Khanom passed the order on Thursday. Earlier, Jalal's counsel pleaded for bail on any condition for his client, considering his age. 

Jalal was arrested from the city's Segunbagicha area on November 5 in the case filed by the victim under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. 

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Akhteruzzaman sent Molla Jalal to jail on that day as police produced him before the court and pleaded to keep him behind the bars till the completion of probe.

A woman filed the case against Molla Jalal and his associate Soleman alias Selim on November 1.