Court Correspondent :
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Thursday rejected the bail plea of veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in a case filed for his alleged involvement in a plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wajed Joy.
Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla of the court passed the order after hearing on the remand plea. Advocate Joynal Abedin Mesbah appeared on behalf of Shafik Rehman.
The veteran journalist is now in the Kashimpur jail on completion of 10 days’ remand. He was first put on a five-day remand on April 16 and another five days on April 22.
On April 16, plainclothes detectives arrested the veteran journalist from his house in the city’s Eskaton area. Police said, Shafik was physically present at a meeting on January 29, 2012 with US-Bangladesh citizen Rizve Ahmed Caesar and former FBI agent Robert Lustyik, where they allegedly conspired to abduct and kill joy, who is the Information, Communication and Technology Adviser of the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, on April 18, the Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman was shown arrested in the same case and was placed on 15 days’ remand. He was again put on the remand for five days on May 5.
The case docket says that BNP and BNP-led alliance’s high-ups including JASAS Vice President Mohammad Ullah Mamun gathered in different places of Bangladesh, New York of USA and UK since September, 2011 to abduct and kill Joy in USA.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Thursday rejected the bail plea of veteran journalist Shafik Rehman in a case filed for his alleged involvement in a plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wajed Joy.
Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla of the court passed the order after hearing on the remand plea. Advocate Joynal Abedin Mesbah appeared on behalf of Shafik Rehman.
The veteran journalist is now in the Kashimpur jail on completion of 10 days’ remand. He was first put on a five-day remand on April 16 and another five days on April 22.
On April 16, plainclothes detectives arrested the veteran journalist from his house in the city’s Eskaton area. Police said, Shafik was physically present at a meeting on January 29, 2012 with US-Bangladesh citizen Rizve Ahmed Caesar and former FBI agent Robert Lustyik, where they allegedly conspired to abduct and kill joy, who is the Information, Communication and Technology Adviser of the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, on April 18, the Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman was shown arrested in the same case and was placed on 15 days’ remand. He was again put on the remand for five days on May 5.
The case docket says that BNP and BNP-led alliance’s high-ups including JASAS Vice President Mohammad Ullah Mamun gathered in different places of Bangladesh, New York of USA and UK since September, 2011 to abduct and kill Joy in USA.
