Sajeeb Wazed Joy, ICT adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday, appeared before a Dhaka court to testify on how a plot was hatched to kidnap and kill him.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Asaduzzaman Nur is set to record Sajeeb Wazed Joy's statements.
The accused are -- Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, senior journalist Shafiq Rahman, Mohammad Ullah Mamun, vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas), and his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar, and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, an expat businessman living in the United States.
DB Assistant Commissioner Hassan Arafat, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on February 22, 2018.
According to the case, Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas) vice-president Mohammad Ullah Mamun along with some top leaders of BNP and its allies met at different places in Bangladesh, including Jasas office, BNP office and the USA before September 2011 and conspired to abduct and kill Joy.
Later, they asked Mamun's son Rizvi Ahamed Caesar to carry out the plan while BNP and its alliance's top leaders financed the plot. Rizvi was nabbed in America and was sentenced to 42-month imprisonment by a US court for bribing an FBI special agent to collect information apparently on Joy.
During the investigation, it was found that Caesar told the American court that he obtained some information about Joy from an FBI agent by bribing him.
Later he gave the information to a Bangladeshi journalist, who is a political ally and a private detective.
On August 3, 2015, DB inspector Fazlur Rahman filed the case with Paltan police station on charges of “conspiracy to abduct and kill Joy”.