A Dhaka court has granted a five-day remand to Badwip Prakashan Publisher Shamsuzzoha Manik and a one-day remand for Shamsul Alam and a two-day remand for Fakir Taslim Uddin Kajo.
Shahabagh police produced three accused before the Dhaka Court seeking a 7-day remand for each. On behalf of the accused, advocate Rafiqul Islam submitted a bail petition to the court.
After hearing Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amirul Haider Chowdhury rejected their bail petitions and passed the remand order.
Earlier in the day, police filed a case against detained Badwip Prakashan Publisher Shamsuzzoha Manik and two others on charge of printing and selling a book with content that could hurt “religious sentiments.”
The other two accused are Shamsul Alam, the stall manager and Fakir Taslim Uddin Kajol, owner of the book’s printing press.
Police on Monday shut down their stall at the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela on the charge as well.
Abdul Baten, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan police (Ramna zone), disclosed it at a press briefing held in Shahbag police station Tuesday afternoon.
He said they filed the case under the Information and Communication Technology Act. Police also seized another 70 books of the publication house.
Later, police sent the three to court seeking a seven-day remand, the DC also said.
In reply to a query, the DMP official said: “We have received information about “the religious provocative book” from different social media sites and the intelligence unit's report. We have kept eyes on social networking media to spot such messages.”
The book's online version went viral and that was why they filed the lawsuit under the ICT act, Abdul Baten continued.
When the DC was informed that the book that created the uproar was a translation of the writings of foreign writers', he told Dhaka tribune that this case was still at the initial stage of investigation.
“If the book is a translated one in that case we have nothing to do with those foreign writers,” he noted.