Bid to enter Ganabhaban illegally, trial begins

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Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court on Wednesday started trial in the case filed for attempting to enter the Ganabhaban illegally.
Judge Md Mujibur Rahman of the Anti-Terror Special Tribunal of Dhaka started the trial through framing charges against accused SM Raihan Kabir, 35, under the Anti-Terror Act. The court fixed January 20, to record the depositions of the case.
The police complains that Raihan is a member of the banned outfit Hijbut
Touhid, while his family claims that he is a mental patient.
The court’s lawyer of the tribunal Golam Sarwar Khan Zakir informed that no lawyer was present in the court on behalf of Raihan.
The case details say that, on November 14, last year, at about 2.30 am Raihan tried to enter into the Prime Minister’s residence Ganabhaban through Gate No. 2, when the members of the law enforcing agency, present there, detained him.
Meanwhile, during the interrogation of the members of police and other detective agencies, Raihan said that he is associated with banned Hijbut Touhid. His seized mobile phone says that he would conduct activities as a leader of the banned unit. He had a fake face-book account.
SI Noyan Mia of the city’s Mohammad Police Station filed a case with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station under two sections of the Penal Code and a Section of the Anti-Terror Act. Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station SI Abdur Rashid Sarker submitted a charge sheet of the case to a court.
His father SM Emdadul Haque earlier claimed, Raihan is mentally ill and he is under treatment for seven years at the National Mental Health Institute.
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