Blogger Asif on remand again

A Dhaka court yesterday placed blogger Asif Mohiuddin on a fresh one-day remand in a case filed against him in connection with hurting religious sentiments via social media.
Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiyan passed the order after Mainul Islam, inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police, produced Asif before him with a 7-day remand prayer.
Asif was produced before the court on expiry of his three-day remand.
Inspector Mainul said he had culled important information from Asif. He needs to be remanded again for more information about the comments, which “hurt religious sentiments of the people,” he added.
On the other hand, a counsel for Asif filed a bail petition along with cancellation of the remand prayer saying his client was falsely implicated in the case with an intention to harass him.
The defence also said his client along with his other comrades had been waging a movement to ban Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir.
So, the remand prayer should be cancelled and bail petition be granted, the lawyer added.
Earlier on April 4, another Dhaka court placed Asif on a three-day remand in the case.
Detectives on April 3 arrested Asif, who had been attacked by Islamist fanatics in January, for his alleged online posts “defaming Islam and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)”.