A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent journalist Shafik Rehman, arrested in connection with a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, to jail on completion of his second remand.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate SM Masud Zaman passed the order when police produced him before the court after his second five-day remand. In two terms he was on ten days police remand.
Daily Jai Jai Din founding editor Shafik, who now edits Bangla monthly magazine Mouchake Dhil, was lodged with general inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail as he was not entitled to get division 1 facilities, said a senior prison official.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Shafik’s counsel Md Sanaullah Miah filed three separate petitions with the court, seeking permission to meet the journalist.
The lawyer also sought division for Shafik and urged the court to issue directions upon the proper authorities to admit him to either BIRDEM Hospital or Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University for treatment.
After hearing, the court ordered the Jail authorities to take necessary steps about division facilities in jail and his treatment at BIRDEM or Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
Meanwhile, the court allowed four lawyers and Shafik’s wife Taleya Rehman to meet him for 15 minutes when his lawyer submitted a petition before the court to talk to him.
Earlier, a court on 15 April, Friday, put journalist Shafik Rehman on a fresh five-day remand for further interrogation in the case.
On April 16, detectives arrested Shafik Rehman, former editor of the Bangla daily Jaijaidin from his Eskaton Garden residence in the city.
Shafik Rehman, in his early 80s, was shown arrested in a criminal conspiracy case filed with Paltan Police Station on August 03, 2015 in connection with attempting to abduct and kill Joy.
Source: New Age
