Mahmudur Rahman will surrender to the court
September 28, 20243 Mins Read
Jumbangla Desk: Mahmudur Rahman, the former acting editor of Amar Desh newspaper, who was convicted in the case of kidnapping and attempted murder of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajib Wazed Joy, who resigned in the face of the mass uprising of anti-discrimination students, will surrender in the lower court tomorrow.

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Lawyer Syed Zainul Abedin Mejbah said this on behalf of Mahmudur Rahman on Saturday.

He said that the judicial court gave a verdict in the case of Mahmudur Rahman as a fugitive and sentenced him to seven years in prison in his absence.

Advocate Mejbah said that he will surrender in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka. We will seek bail on appeal in this case. I will appeal to the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court.

The lawyer said that he may have to go to jail as the concerned court does not have the jurisdiction to grant bail according to the term of the sentence. An application will also be made that he be given a division in the jail. Mahmudur Rahman served as an advisor at the rank of State Minister. According to law he will get division in jail.

Advocate Mejbah said that Mahmudur Rahman was sentenced on false and baseless charges. A farce was made in the name of speedy trial against Mahmudur Rahman in the judicial process in question. The role of the judge who announced the verdict was also questionable. We have been deprived of justice.

In the case of kidnapping and attempted murder of Sajib Wazed Joy on August 17 last year, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Asaduzzaman Noor's court sentenced five people, including Mahmudur Rahman and journalist Shafiq Rehman, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment.
The other three convicts who were convicted are Jasa leader Mohammad Ullah, Rizvi Ahmed Caesar and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan.

The court sentenced the accused to five years imprisonment and a fine of five thousand rupees under section 365 (kidnapping) of the Penal Code. If they do not pay the fine, they will have to serve one more month in jail. Besides, in the same law, under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), the court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and a fine of five thousand taka for one more month. The judge mentioned in the verdict that the two sentences will run together.

It is alleged in the case that from any time before September 2011 till now BNP's cultural organization Jasas vice-president Mohammad Ullah Mamun and other high-level leaders of BNP and BNP-led coalition parties have gathered at Jasa's office in Paltan in the capital, New York City of America, United Kingdom and Bangladesh. With the connivance of Prime Minister's son and his technical adviser Sajeeb Wazed, Jai was kidnapped and conspired to be killed in America.

In that incident, DB Police Inspector Fazlur Rahman filed the case at Paltan Model Police Station as the plaintiff on August 3, 2015. On February 19, 2018, the police filed a charge sheet against these five people in the court. 12 people including Sajib Wazed Joy gave evidence in this case.

Incidentally, Mahmudur Rahman returned home from Türkiye on Friday morning.

At one time, he served in the BNP government as the chairman of the investment board and as the state minister. After fulfilling these duties, he joined himself in journalism. He was serving as the acting editor of popular daily Amar Desha.

Mahmudur Rahman was brutally tortured by the state machinery for writing against the fascist behavior of the previous government in Amar Desh Patrika. He has always been vocal and uncompromising against all the undemocratic fascism of the previous government.