2 Rtv jurnos granted bail

A relative embraces one of the journalists of private television channel Rtv after a metropolitan magistrate granted the duo bail in the capital today. Locals handed over reporter Tamjid Rony and cameraman Prashanto Modok to Kamrangirchar police yesterday bringing allegation that they were inciting blockaders to blast crude bombs at Kurar Ghat. Photo: Focus Bangla

A Dhaka court today granted bail to two journalists of private television channel Rtv in a bomb blast case.

Locals handed over reporter Tamjid Rony and cameraman Prashanto Modok to Kamrangirchar police yesterday bringing allegation that they were inciting blockaders to blast crude bombs at Kurar Ghat.

Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan today granted their bail after Rasul Samdani Azad, a sub-inspector of Kamrangichar Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court on competition of their remand.

The journalists yesterday were placed on a four-day remand but the IO completed their interrogation in a day and produced them before the court.

Officer-in-charge of the police station Sheikh Mohsin Alam yesterday said the two journalists were spotted by locals while they were inciting the picketers to explode cocktails.

Then the locals caught them and handed them over to police, the OC said.

Later, a local shopkeeper, Shah Alam, filed the case against 15 people including the journalists under the explosive act. Around 25 unnamed people were also made accused in the case.

Denying the allegation, Rtv’s Chief News Editor Lutfur Rahman said the journalists were only doing their duty by taking footage of picketers exploding cocktails.

When the pro-blockade activists, who blasted the cocktails, ran away soon after the explosion while the anti-blockade activists caught our journalists, said Lutfur.