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Shafik Rehman in Kashimpur jail after 10 days of remands
A court in Dhaka has sent editor Shafik Rehman to jail after 10 days of grilling in two rounds of police custody.
Published : 27 April 2016, 09:25 PM
Updated : 27 April 2016, 09:25 PM
He has been accused in a case over a plot to abduct and murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy.
Metropolitan Magistrate SM Masud Zaman ordered Rehman into jail on Wednesday.
He was not produced before the court and kept in the court detention centre during the hearing.
He was taken to Dhaka Central Jail from the court and then transferred to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur.
Another accused in the case, daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman has also been detained there, pending trial.
The court has ordered the jail authorities to give Rehman, an octogenarian, first-class status and provide him with necessary treatment following the defence lawyers’ petition.
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