Sedition Case: SC upholds bail of CU teacher
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Anwar Hossain Choudhury, an assistant professor of Chattogram University's sociology department, in a sedition case.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed "no order" on a government petition seeking stay on the HC order of bail.
The HC order that on August 20 this year granted six weeks' bail to Anwar Hossain in the case will remain effective following the apex court order, Anwar's lawyer Motaher Hossain Sazu told The Daily Star.
He said former Fatikchhari upazila Chhatra League convener Asaduzzaman Tanvir filed the case with the court of metropolitan magistrate in Chattogram on May 17, 2018 following a news published in Bangla daily Bhorer Kagoj translating the observations Anwar made on the Liberation War, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Awami League in an article published in a US journal.
Bhorer Kagoj has published the news distorting his observations, he said.
Anwar had then sent a rejoinder to Bhorer Kagoj office, saying that he did not make any objectionable observations on the Liberation War, Bangabandhu and AL in his article published in a US journal.
But Bhorer Kagoj did not published the rejoinder, he added.
Anwar's article was reportedly published in the Global Journal of Human-Social Science: C, Sociology & Culture, Volume 17, Issue, 3, Version 1.0 in 2017, according to the case statement.
Deputy Attorney General Bishwajit Debnath represeted the state during the apex court's virtual hearing on the government's stay petition yesterday.
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