A tribunal here on Sunday fixed November 17 for hearing on charge-framing against secretary of rights body ‘Odhikar’ Adilur Rahman Khan and its director ASM Nasiruddin Elan in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act.
Passing the order, Judge KM Shamsul Alam of the Cyber Crimes Tribunal also decided to hear a bail petition for Elan on the day.
On November 6, the tribunal sent Elan to jail when he surrendered before it seeking bail.
On October 8, the High Court granted bail for six months to rights body secretary Adilur, the prime accused in the case.
On September 4, Detective Branch (DB) of Police inspector Ashraful Alam, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against the duo in the case filed under Section 57 (1) (2) of the ICT Act for publishing ‘fake, distorted and defamatory’ information.
On September 11, the court took cognisance of the charges against them and issued a warrant for the arrest of Elan.
Odhikar on June 10 published a report, titled ‘Assembly of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh and Human Rights Violations’, claiming that it had collected the names of 61 people killed during the ‘evacuation’ by law enforcers at Shapla Chattar in the city’s Motijheel area.
On the day, the Information Ministry had written to Odhikar seeking the names and details of the 61 ‘deceased’ persons as claimed in the report, but Odhikar declined to comply.
On August 10, plainclothes police arrested Adilur Rahman Khan from near his Gulshan residence.
Source: UNBConnect