Authorities today told the High Court that the Tangail schoolboy –
who was handed two-year-jail for alleged Facebook threat to a lawmaker –
was handed penalised “for narcotics”.
- After jailing boy in ICT act, they now say it was for narcotics
- ‘Assaulted, tortured, threatened’ for ‘threatening’ MP
- Authorities appear before High Court for explanation
Tangail authorities provided the turnaround explanation in response
to High Court’s summon – based on a report published in The Daily Star
on September 20.
The report quoted
Executive Magistrate Rafiqul Islam to say that the boy penalised under
ICT Act after the class IX student admitted sending a Facebook text to
local lawmaker Anupam Shajahan Joy.
Now, the High Court has set October 18 for passing further order on
its suo moto rule – issued earlier seeking explanation from Sakhipur UNO
and local OC on their actions.
The boy, Sabbir Shikder, a student of Protima Bonki Public High School in Sakhipur upazila and
now on bail, was also present before the High Court and presented his account today.
‘WAS ASSAULTED, THREATENED WITH DEATH’
Describing his account of the incident, Sabbir said plainclothes
picked him up from his house around 9:00pm on September 16 and took him
blindfolded to Sakhipur Police Station.
There, Sakhipur Officer-in-Charge Maksudul Islam “tortured him and
threatened to kill him in crossfire” before escorting him to the
residence of MP Anupam Shahjahan.
“The lawmaker beat me up with stick,” Sabbir said. Then he was taken
to the office of Sakhipur upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) Rafiqul Islam,
where the upazila officer kicked him before jailing him for two years.
However, UNO’s lawyer SM Rezaul Karim and OC’s lawyer Nurul Islam
Sujon told the High Court that the mobile court sentenced Sabbir for
carrying marijuana.
Also, on the note of the report, the lawyers said that The Daily Star published it to malign the image of the lawmaker.
