Bangla Tribune’s Ariful Islam Rigan was not the first person in Kurigram to suffer the kind of terrifying raid at home by a mobile court in the dead of night, with Senior Assistant Commissioner Nazim Uddin leading the charge as some kind of in-house “muscle power” for the district administration.

The High Court on Monday sought all documents about the arrest and sentencing of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam Rigan by a mobile court at midnight.

A court here on Sunday granted bail to journalist Ariful Islam Rigan, who was jailed for one year for ‘possessing narcotics’.

Terming the imprisonment of the Kurigram journalist illegal, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Saturday said such misuse of law is in contravention of the constitutional commitment and against the freedom of media.

A mobile court sentenced a journalist to one year in jail and fined him Tk 50,000 for possession of 'liquor and hemp'.