Mahmudur denied bail

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a bail petition of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of the recently closed daily Amar Desh, in a case filed against him with Kotwali Police Station for obstructing the police in discharging their duties.
Meantime, Tejgaon police took Mahmudur on a three-day remand for interrogation in the case filed against him for obstructing the law enforcers in discharge of their jobs on June 2.
First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan passed the order after Kotwali police produced him before it on completion of a day's remand.
Kotwali police filed the case on June 2 against 130 to 150 unidentified people, including Mahmudur Rahman and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Tejgaon unit leader Habibur Rahman Kabir.
In the forwarding report, the investigation officer (IO) Sub-Inspector (SI) Moklesur Rahman said Mahmudur got infurated when he was asked about the purpose of holding a secret meeting with government officials of different levels on November 24, 2006 at his Artisan Ceramics in Uttara.
The information derived from him during his remand is being verified, he added.
Moreover, there will be a necessity to interrogate him after being remanded in future.
So, the accused should be confined in jail custody until the investigation completes, the IO said.
Earlier, Mahmudur was placed on an eight-day remand in two other criminal cases filed with Uttara and Bimanbandar police stations on different dates.
Police arrested Mahmudur Rahman on June 2 from his Amar Desh office at Karwan Bazar after its former publisher Hasmat Ali Hasu filed a cheating case against him with Tejgaon Shilpanchal Police Station.