Digital Security Act: HC grants bail to journalist arrested for ‘threatening Kishoreganj DC on Facebook’ Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Akib Hridoy, a local journalist of Ananda TV from Kishoreganj, was granted bail for six months by the High Court today, 42 days after he was arrested under the Digital Security Act.
The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo today granted the bail after hearing a bail petition submitted by Akib s lawyer.
The state will not appeal against the HC order, Deputy Attorney General Md Aminul Islam told The Daily Star.
Akib (28) was arrested on December 28 last year in a case filed by the then Kishoreganj Deputy Commissioner Md Sarwar Murshed Chowdhury at Kishoreganj Sadar Police Station.
The bench had granted him bail on January 14 following the bail petitions filed by him.
DAG Aminul told The Daily Star last night that the Special Tribunal-1 of Feni on December 5, 2005 sentenced Redwanul Huq to life imprisonment in the cases filed for bombing the Feni court and district office premises on August 17 the same year when a series of bomb blasts took place across the country.
The HC bench granted bail to Rezwanul on January 14 as his lawyer Hasina Jahan Hazari suppressed the fact that he was a JMB activist.
The defence lawyer had told the HC bench that Redwanul was a poor man suffering in jail for 15 years and he did not seek bail from the HC earlier in the cases, DAG Aminul said.