A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent a National University teacher to jail after quashing a bail extension plea in a defamation case filed against him for derogatory comments about the prime minister and her family.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Moinul Islam Bhuiyan passed the order rejecting his plea for a bail extension.
Earlier on August 22, AKM Wahiduzzaman, a teacher in the Geography Department, allegedly made a defamatory comment on Facebook about Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul.
On October 8 AB Siddiqui, president of pro-Awami League organisation Bangladesh Jononetri Parishad, lodged the defamation case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
On the same day a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against him.
Later on October 11, Wahiduzzaman secured a month on bail.
On Wednesday morning he appeared before the court and pleaded for a bail extension but the court rejected his plea and sent him to jail.