UNB, Sylhet :A Sylhet court on Wednesday turned down the bail petition of photojournalist Idris Ali in a case filed in connection with the murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.Judge of Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate court-2 Farhana Haque passed the order following the bail petition of Idris’s lawyer Abdul Gaffar.The court also fixed June 23 for next hearing.Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on May 12.On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with Airport Police Station.On May 25, Police Headquarters asked the Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) to hand over the blogger killing case to the CID for investigation.A CID team arrested Idris, a photojournalist of the Daily Sabuj Sylhet published in Sylhet and son of Ilias Ali of Fatehgarh village under Airport Police Station, from his residence on June 7.Judge of the Metropolitan Cognisance Court-3 Farzana Yesmin put Idris Ali on a seven-day remand on the same day. Later, a court sent Idris to jail when Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police Arman Ali produced him before the court on completion of his seven-day remand on June 15.Ananta Bijoy was also a writer of ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy – who had been murdered two and a half months ago after he came home from the USA.
