Sylhet journo secures bail
Journalist Maynul Haq Bulbul, who was arrested by plainclothes police from a hospital in Mirboxtula area on Thursday night, has secured bail after appearing before a Sylhet court.
Bulbul, senior correspondent of NTV and also former president of Electronic Media Journalists Association (EMJA) in Sylhet, was arrested by Kanaighat police over a case filed against him.
Advocate Debabrata Chowdhury Liton said that Sylhet’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Ubaid granted his bail plea after a hearing yesterday afternoon.
Liaquat Shah Faridi, a senior journalist, said, “We went to Sylhet Women’s Hospital to see a patient and while we were talking at the corridor of the hospital at around 10:30pm, a group of five/six armed men in plainclothes asked his name and then forcibly picked him up. When I asked for their identity, they did not answer and left with Bulbul.”
For around an hour, the whereabouts of Bulbul was unknown and later police confirmed the arrest.
Md Shamsuddoha, officer-in-charge of Kanaighat Police Station, said, “A case was filed with Sylhet Judicial Magistrate’s Court on September 16 for embezzling money. The court ordered to record it as a regular case and find the accused following legal procedure.”
One Raihan Ahmed filed the case, Shamsuddoha said.
“After getting the order from the court, we assigned the case to an investigative officer, traced him and with the help of local police station, we arrested him,” the OC said.
In a press release, jointly signed by EMJA’s president Bappa Ghosh Chowdhury and general secretary Manjur Ahmed said police did not follow legal procedure while arresting Bulbul.
They demanded proper investigation of the method of arresting a journalist.
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