Adilur, Elan not given division defying court order
Etihad News Desk :
The prison authorities have yet to provide noted human rights defenders Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, who were jailed for two years on September 14, division facilities defying a court order.
The rights defenders’ lawyer Mohammad Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan told on Sunday that the Dhaka Cyber Tribunal asked the superintendent of the Dhaka Central Jail to provide them with division on September 14 while sentencing them to jail.
Adilur is the secretary of rights organisation Odhikar and Nasiruddin is its director. Ruhul, quoting an official of the tribunal, said that the order for division facilities and the convictions were sent to the jail in the afternoon on September 14.
‘They have, however, not been given the division defying the order of the tribunal,’ Ruhul quoted his senior Mohammad Ahsanuzzaman, who visited the jailed rights activists at the jail on Saturday.
Ruhul also said that Adilur and Nasiruddin were yet to provide with the certified copy of the verdict causing delay in filing appeals and seeking bail.
The cyber tribunal’s special public prosecutor Md Nazrul Islam Shamim, however, said that he expected to get the copy on Sunday.
Dhaka Central Jail senior superintendent Suvas Kumar Ghose told on Sunday afternoon that he was yet to receive the tribunal’s order.
He, however, said that after getting the order they would forward it to the home ministry for a decision whether the two rights were to be given division facilities in jail.
Ruhul said that the tribunal given Adilur, also a Supreme Court lawyer and former deputy attorney general, division facilities which he enjoyed as Class I prisoner during his pre-trial detention for 60 days in 2013 following a High Court order.
The tribunal also ordered divisional facilities for Nasiruddin considering his life style and social status of living, he added.
If the jail authorities give Adilur division 1, he would remain in a separate room where there is a cot with bed, a table, a chair, and a television. He will get two newspapers — Bangla and an English — and will also get foods on his choice, according to a jail official.
On August 10, 2013 the detective police arrested Adilur in front of his Gulshan house based on the general diary, which stated that he had committed offences under the Information and Communications Technology Act 2006 by disseminating ‘fabricated information about the death toll of the incident and distorted photographs in electronic format’ about the police action against Hefajat activists at Motijheel in May 5–6, 2013.
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