The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a bail order granted by the High Court to the Daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed under the ICT Act.
The chief justice-led bench of the Appellate Division gave the order turning down a state’s petition against the bail order yesterday.
Mahmudur’s counsels told the media that Mahmudur Rahman could be released from jail as he had already been secured bails in other cases. He has been in prison since April 2013.
Lawyer Md Salehuddin said the case was filed in 2012 over a report published in the newspaper over an alleged Skype conversation between an International Crimes Tribunal judge and an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
A Cyber Crime tribunal denied his bail and he was later granted bail by the HC on January 15 this year.
Later the chamber judge of the Supreme Court accepted government plea against his bail order and forwarded it to the regular bench for hearing.
The bench finally rejected the petition after the hearing.
