ZCZC
BSS-21
HC-STAY-PUNISHMENT-ARIF
HC stays mobile court sentence against Kurigram journo
DHAKA, March 23, 2020 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today stayed for six
months a mobile court order, sentencing Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam to
one year imprisonment for alleged possession of narcotics.
A High Court vacation bench comprising Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and
Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir passed the order, also asking the officer
in-charge of concerned police station to accept Arif’s allegations against
former Kurigram deputy commissioner Sultana Pervin, mobile court magistrate
and other as first information report.
“The court also issued a rule asking as to why it shall not declare
illegal and scrap the proceedings of sentencing Arif by that mobile court,”
advocate Ishrat Hasan, who moved a writ in this regard, told newsmen.
District administration officials and staffs detained Arif, Kurigram
correspondent of online news porter Bangla Tribune, middle of the night on
March 13 from his house.
District administration officials later conducted a mobile court in
middle of the night, sentencing Arif one year imprisonment saying half bottle
wine and 150 grams of ganja were found from the house of the non-smoker
journalist.
He was brutally beaten in the meantime and his signature was taken on
different document by keeping him blindfolded.
BSS/DA/MHR/IJ/1826 hrs