Defence witness 'illegally detained'
A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday challenging the legality of alleged detention of Shukho Ranjan Bali, a defence witness of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
Abul Kalam Azad, Ranjan's friend, submitted the petition seeking directives from the HC on the government to produce Ranjan before the court to show that he was not illegally detained.
Azad claimed in the petition that Ranjan, who was in a vehicle with him, had been "abducted by a group of plainclothes police" in front of the main entrance of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on November 5.
The policemen dragged Ranjan to another car and left with him, he said.
Advocate Tajul Islam, a counsel for the petitioner, told The Daily Star that law enforcers have been keeping Ranjan in custody illegally, as police did not produce him before any magistrate within 24 hours of detaining him.
As per constitutional provision, law enforcers have to produce detainees before a magistrate within 24 hours of detaining them, he added.
The court fixed November 11 for hearing the petition.
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