Mahmudur Rahman Manna
The Appellate Division on Thursday directed the chief metropolitan magistrate of Dhaka to return passport of Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna for three months to facilitate his treatment in abroad.
A three-member bench headed by chief justice SK Sinha also asked Manna to return the passport to the CMM within seven days after his returning home from abroad.
The apex court issued the directive after hearing an appeal filed by Manna seeking to return his passport he had surrendered it to the CMM on the court order on November 18, 2016.
The Appellate Division had granted bail to Manna on condition that he would surrender his passport to the CMM, his lawyer Shahdeen Malik told New Age.
Earlier, December 18, 2016, Mahmudur Rahman Manna was released on bail from jail, 22 months of his detention in two cases.
Manna was picked up from his relative’s house at Badda on February 24, 2015 and was later implicated in the cases.
In one case, sedition charge was brought against him for his alleged telephone conversation with Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Sadek Hossain Khoka on the anti-government movement.
In the other, he was charged with provoking armed forces to overthrow the government through his alleged conversation with an unidentified expatriate.
Source: New Age
