SC stays HC bail to 'ISIS recruit' till Nov 16
Following a government appeal, the Supreme Court yesterday stayed till November 16 the November 10 High Court bail granted to Asif Adnan Shuvo, allegedly recruited as an ISIS fighter by a UK citizen of Bangladeshi origin, in a case filed under Anti-terrorism Act 2009 for “conspiring to commit terrorist and militant activities”.
The four-member bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain will further hear the appeal on November 16.
Now in Dhaka Central Jail, former HC Judge Abdus Salam Mamun's 26-year-old son was arrested at his Segunbagicha residence in the capital on September 24. That day a senior bureaucrat's son, Fazle Elahi Tanzil, 24, was also arrested at the government quarters at Eskaton.
Alleged supporters of emerging radical militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, the duo were reportedly planning to go to Syria through Turkey with the UK citizen's help posing as members of Tabligh Jamaat, a peaceful movement for spreading Islamic values, investigators learned during interrogations.
Yesterday, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, one bench member, observed that the issue concerning the rise of militancy in Bangladesh must be dealt dispassionately and without leniency.
“While my heart bleeds to see a son of one of my former brothers before us as an accused...we cannot ignore the question of the state's security,” he said, adding that the state's security must be protected at all costs.
These people (militants) are bent on destroying our country and assassinating our leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and other VVIPs and important individuals, he added.
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