Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of the human rights organisation Odhikar, and its director ASM Nasiruddin Elan have been released today (October 15) from Dhaka Central Jail.

Subhash Kumar Ghosh, senior jail super confirmed the matter. 

They came out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 7:04 pm, he added. 

Earlier on October 10, the High Court granted bail to Adilur and Nasiruddin, in a case filed under the ICT Act, in which a lower court sentenced them to two years in jail.

On September 14, the cyber tribunal in Dhaka sentenced Adilur and Elan for two years in a case filed under Section 57 of the now defunct ICT Act.

On September 14 this year, a special court sentenced Adilur and Elan to two-year imprisonment in a case lodged under the ICT Act. 

The court also fined them Tk 10 thousand each, and a month more behind the bars in default of the payment.

According to the case documents, Adilur and Elan deliberately made false claims regarding death of 61 people during a joint operation conducted by the law enforcement agencies on May 5 in 2013, to remove Hefajat-e-Islam activists and leaders from Shapla Chattar in city's Motijheel area, as they announced a night stay at the rally venue there.

The duo was accused of trying to create confusion among the Muslim devotees, spread hate against the law enforcement agencies and defame the government, said the case docs. 

DB Sub-Inspector (SI) Ashraful Islam made a general diary with Gulshan Police Station in this regard on August 10, 2013.

Chargesheet was submitted against the duo in Dhaka court on September 4 of that year. The trial started against them in 2014.

BDST: 2132 HRS, OCT 15, 2023
MN