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Fazle Elahi Khan, Judge of Rangpur Senior Judicial Magistrate court-3, granted the appeal for bail as the 19 accused surrendered before court.
Defendants’ lawyer Abdul Haque Pramanik said the desecration of the national flag was an unintended incident so the case was bailable.
Public prosecutor of the case Rafiq Hasnain said, ‘We rejected the investigation report police submitted excluding the name of BRU vice chancellor Professor Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, who gave written approval for the program.’
‘We requested the court to consider this as a sedition case as police investigation confirmed of sedition charges,’ said the public prosecutor.
On 16 December, 2020 some teachers and officials of BRU replaced the red circle of the national flag with a square and presented at the memorial of independence in observance of the victory day. They posted photos with the flag in social media which soon got viral.
Accusing the involved 19 teachers and officials varsity’s former assistant secretary of BSL lodged a complaint in the city’s Tajhat police station.
The incident triggered rage among the teachers-students of BRU. Holding a human chain they demanded punishment for the offenders.
Later Deputy Commissioner of the district Asib Ahsan formed a 3-member probe committee including the assistant police commissioner of the Rangpur metropolitan.
The probe committee submitted the investigation report confirming that the act of the accused was against section 3 of Bangladesh flag rules, 1972.