UNB, Dhaka :
The High Court will pass its order on October 18 on a suo moto rule over the sentence awarded to a schoolboy by a mobile court in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail for allegedly threatening a local MP through Facebook.
An HC bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das fixed the date on Tuesday on completion of hearing the statements of Sakhipur
upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and executive magistrate Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge Mohammad Maksudul Alam and convicted Class-IX student Sabbir Shikder. Earlier, on September 20, the same HC bench summoned the UNO and the OC to explain as to why the jail term awarded by the UNO to the schoolboy for allegedly posting write-ups threatening local MP Anupam Shajahan Joy on Facebook should not be declared illegal.
The court passed the suo moto order and asked them to appear before the court on Tuesday to explain the matter following the publication of a report in an English daily.
The HC also granted bail to convict Sabbir Shikder, a student of Protima Bonki Public High School in the upazila, following a petition filed by his lawyer and asked him to appear before the court today.
Earlier, Supreme Court lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan drew the HC bench’s attention to the report headlined ‘Boy jailed for FB comment about MP’ published in The Daily Star.
During the hearing on Tuesday, Sabbir claimed that two policemen called him out of his house around 9 pm on September 16 and took him to the police station following a general diary filed by the MP.
The High Court will pass its order on October 18 on a suo moto rule over the sentence awarded to a schoolboy by a mobile court in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail for allegedly threatening a local MP through Facebook.
An HC bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das fixed the date on Tuesday on completion of hearing the statements of Sakhipur
upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and executive magistrate Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge Mohammad Maksudul Alam and convicted Class-IX student Sabbir Shikder. Earlier, on September 20, the same HC bench summoned the UNO and the OC to explain as to why the jail term awarded by the UNO to the schoolboy for allegedly posting write-ups threatening local MP Anupam Shajahan Joy on Facebook should not be declared illegal.
The court passed the suo moto order and asked them to appear before the court on Tuesday to explain the matter following the publication of a report in an English daily.
The HC also granted bail to convict Sabbir Shikder, a student of Protima Bonki Public High School in the upazila, following a petition filed by his lawyer and asked him to appear before the court today.
Earlier, Supreme Court lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan drew the HC bench’s attention to the report headlined ‘Boy jailed for FB comment about MP’ published in The Daily Star.
During the hearing on Tuesday, Sabbir claimed that two policemen called him out of his house around 9 pm on September 16 and took him to the police station following a general diary filed by the MP.
