Journalist Mukul sent to jail before end of remand

Gazi TV News Editor Rakibul Islam Mukul, who was arrested for ‘torturing’ his wife, has been sent to jail before the end of his one-day remand.

The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey sent Mukul to jail on Monday after Mirpur police produced him before it.
 
The same court had granted police one-day remand of Mukul on Saturday in a case filed by his wife Nazneen Akhter, also a journalist, with the Mirpur Police Station.
 
He was supposed to be produced before the court again on Monday after the end of the remand, but police took him to the court on Sunday.
 
The magistrate sent him to jail without any hearing as no petition was submitted for his bail.
 
Mirpur OC Salahuddin told bdnews24.com they had already obtained ‘necessary information’ from him. “That’s why he was sent to court without being kept (in remand),” he said.
 
The journalist couple have a child.
 

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Akhter, a senior reporter at the Daily Janakantha, jumped off the fourth floor of her residence in September 2013 on the news that her minor daughter Chandramukhi had died.

She sued Mukul on Friday under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.

According to the case details, Mukul had been torturing her following his relationship with another woman.

He did not even take initiative for Chandramukhi’s treatment, she alleged.

Akhter claimed Mukul developed a relationship with the woman when she was undergoing treatment at the hospital for several months after Chandramukhi’s demise.

She said: “His torture and harassment increased after I became pregnant upon doctor’s advice.”

She had to go to hospital due to the torture during her pregnancy, she alleged.

Akhter also accused Mukul of misappropriating money by selling off the plot they got as journalists in Purbachal without her consent.

She said the land was purchased with the money she had taken on loan.

Mukul did not pay a single penny, she said.

She said Mukul had not agreed to sell off the land when their child Chandramukhi had been suffering from liver ailments.