United News of Bangladesh

The High Court on Monday granted eight weeks’ anticipatory bail to Jamaat-e-Islami MP Mufti Amir Hamza in a defamation case filed in Sirajganj. The HC bench of Justice Zahid Sarwar Kajal and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher passed the order after hearing a petition, his lawyer Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir told media. So, the arrest warrant issued against him will remain ineffective, he said. Earlier, Amir Hamza filed a bail petition with the High Court in the case. On April 2, Humayun Kabir, Additional Public Prosecutor of the Sirajganj District Sessions and Judge Court and General Secretary of the District Bar Association, filed the case against Hamza for allegedly making defamatory remarks about Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku. On the same day, Amir Hamza was summoned to appear before the court on April 21. The court issued an arrest warrant as he failed to appear on the scheduled date. On April 21, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Sirajganj issued another arrest warrant against him. Earlier on March 26, Amir Hamza reportedly referred to Energy Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku as an atheist and Islamophobic during a discussion at the Hatsh Haripur Boro Jame Mosque in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

A Chattogram Court on Saturday placed Shahjahan Chowdhury, a former MP and central leader of Jammat-e-Islam, on a 3-day remand in the case over Hefazat’s violence in Hathazari upazila. Judicial Magistrate Shahriar Iqbal passed the order when police sought a 7-day remand to interrogate him, said district court inspector Humayun Kabir Earlier,police arrested Shahjahan Chowdhury from his residence at Samdar Para in Satkania municipality area. Also read: Ex-Jamaat MP Shahjahan Chowdhury held Mohammad Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Satkania Police Station, said a team of police arrested the ex-MP as he was wanted in many cases filed on sabotage charge. He was also the nayeb-e-amir of Chattogram city unit Jamaat-e-Islami and member of the Majlish-e-sura of central unit Jamaat-e-Islami. On April 30, 2019, detective police arrested Shahjahan Chowdhury from a madrasha and he served jail term.