Sangram editor gets HC bail
The High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Abul Asad, editor of Bangla daily Sangram, for six-week in a case filed for illegally printing the daily Amar Desh at the Al-Falah Printing Press.
The HC bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader granted the bail as the editor appeared before the court seeking bail in the case.
The government filed the case with Motijheel Model Police Station on Saturday against the Sangram editor and Mahmuda Begum, acting chairman of daily Amar Desh Publication Limited.
Earlier on Tuesday, the same HC bench granted six-week anticipatory bail to Mahmuda in the case.
On Saturday, two days after the arrest of Amar Desh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman, the Dhaka district administration, aided by Ramna police raided the press and office of Sangram in the capital’s Moghbazar area for printing Amar Desh without the government permission.
During the April 13 raid which was conducted for nearly one hour from 11:00pm, they also seized 210 copies of Saturday’s issue of Amar Desh and 5,000 copies of its Sunday issue from the Al-Falah Printing Press of the daily Sangram.
Police also picked up 19 of the Amar Desh press staff from the Sangram office.
Mahmudur was arrested on charge of sedition for publishing Skype conversations between Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1, and Ahmed Ziauddin, an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
He was also shown arrested in two other cases, filed last month with Tejgaon Police Station for acts of violence and assaulting police during hartals.
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