HC: Free Uttam's mother, aunt
Wed, Oct 17th, 2012 10:55 pm BdST
Dhaka/Cox's Bazaar, Oct 17 (bdnews24.com)—The High
Court on Wednesday ordered release of the detained mother and aunt of Uttam
Barua, the Buddhist youth on whose Facebook profile a photograph denigrating
Islam was uploaded to trigger last month's communal attack.
The bench of Justices AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Jahangir Hossain issued the verbal order in its own volition in the afternoon. But the Cox's Bazaar district administration was unaware of the order
Reached by phone around 9:30pm, neither of the district's Acting Deputy Commissioner Jasim Uddin, Superintendent of Police Selim Md Jahangir and the Jail Superintendent had any idea about the order.
They said that the government did not inform them about any such order either.
The court also ordered a state counsel to update the court on execution of its order by 10:30am on Thursday.
It also asked the government to explain why the arrest of Uttam's mother and aunt should not be declared illegal as they were not accused by anyone in any case.
Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder informed the court that the Cox's Bazaar's ASP said a petition seeking their bail was filed, and awaiting a court hearing on Thursday.
The court wondered how someone could be remanded when that person is not even accused in any case.
Police arrested Uttam's mother Madhu Barua,41, and aunt Adi Barua, 26, on Oct 1 after a case was filed a day after the communal riot broke out at Ramu on Sep 29. They were arrested as Uttam police did not find Uttam.
Later, a court allowed police to remand them for a day against a prayer of four days.
The Daily Janakantha ran a report criticising the police move on Thursday, drawing the court order.
A team of Ain O Shalish Kendra, a legal-aid NGO, reached Cox's Bazaar on Wednesday and filed the bail petition for Uttam's mother and aunt.
bdnews24.com/sn/eh/bd/2239h
The bench of Justices AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Jahangir Hossain issued the verbal order in its own volition in the afternoon. But the Cox's Bazaar district administration was unaware of the order
Reached by phone around 9:30pm, neither of the district's Acting Deputy Commissioner Jasim Uddin, Superintendent of Police Selim Md Jahangir and the Jail Superintendent had any idea about the order.
They said that the government did not inform them about any such order either.
The court also ordered a state counsel to update the court on execution of its order by 10:30am on Thursday.
It also asked the government to explain why the arrest of Uttam's mother and aunt should not be declared illegal as they were not accused by anyone in any case.
Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder informed the court that the Cox's Bazaar's ASP said a petition seeking their bail was filed, and awaiting a court hearing on Thursday.
The court wondered how someone could be remanded when that person is not even accused in any case.
Police arrested Uttam's mother Madhu Barua,41, and aunt Adi Barua, 26, on Oct 1 after a case was filed a day after the communal riot broke out at Ramu on Sep 29. They were arrested as Uttam police did not find Uttam.
Later, a court allowed police to remand them for a day against a prayer of four days.
The Daily Janakantha ran a report criticising the police move on Thursday, drawing the court order.
A team of Ain O Shalish Kendra, a legal-aid NGO, reached Cox's Bazaar on Wednesday and filed the bail petition for Uttam's mother and aunt.
bdnews24.com/sn/eh/bd/2239h
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