The magistrate also directed the investigating officer to submit a report within 10 days whether to give back a seized mobile phone and computer of writer Mushtaq<\/p>\n
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore has appeared before a Dhaka court in a case filed against him under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for the first time after leaving the jail on bail on March 4.<\/p>\n
Kishore appeared before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Abu Bakar Siddique. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Two more accused in the case– Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, an activist of a platform called \u201cRastrachinta,\u201d and<\/p>\n
Minhaj Mannan Emon, managing director of BLE securities and shareholder-director of Dhaka Stock, now on bail — were also present at the court.<\/p>\n
The magistrate allowed Md Afchhar Ahmed, a sub-inspector (SI) of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit and also the investigation officer of the case, to interrogate Minhaj Mannan for a day.<\/p>\n
The magistrate rejected the plea for interrogating Didarul as he was earlier charge-sheeted in the case. On February 25, SI Afchhar submitted the prayer for interrogating Didarul and Minhaj in connection with the case.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, defence for writer Mushtaq Ahmed, who died in jail custody on February 25, submitted a petition on Wednesday, seeking permission to take back a mobile phone and a computer seized earlier by the investigating officer.<\/p>\n
The magistrate directed the investigating officer to submit a report within 10 days whether to give the seized documents.<\/p>\n
A total of 11 people, including Kishore, Mushtaq and Didarul, were prosecuted under the DSA by RAB 3 Assistant Director Abu Bakar Siddique on May 6 last year.<\/p>\n
Didarul and Minhaj were granted bail in September last year, Mushtaq died in custody on February 25 and Kishore was granted bail on March 3 after languishing in jail for 10 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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