Digital Act: BNP leader Hafiz gets bail

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Staff Reporter :
BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed has granted bail in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Atiqul Islam on Sunday granted the bail to Hafiz upon the bond of Tk 10,000 with two guarantors after rejecting a remand prayer filed by police.
On Saturday, law enforcers arrested Hafiz from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the case.
Hafizuddin in connivance with the Chief of BNP Chairperson’s Security Force sent a false, fabricated, and baseless email about government intelligence agency, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Pallabi Police Station Nazrul Islam.
Hafiz’s name allegedly came up in the interrogation of Colonel (retd) Ishaque Mian, the Chief of BNP Chairperson’s Security Force, who was arrested on Saturday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.
According to Ishaque’s case statement, police seized a laptop with an email sent from Ishaque’s personal email account to a certain Hiren Mukherjee at 11:57 pm on May 02, 2019 about the role of intelligence agencies during the December 30, 2018, national election.
The statement alleged that Ishaque gave false, fabricated and baseless information about the agencies’ role undermining the image of the State and upon interrogation, he confessed about Maj (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed, Barrister M Sarwar Hossain and others involvement in the matter.
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