The High Court on Monday granted an eight-week interim bail to writer Farhad Mazhar and his wife Farida Akhter in a case filed against them for lodging a case with 'false information' over the poet's alleged abduction.
The bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath passed the order following a bail petition filed by the couple.
Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Mahbubul Islam filed the case at Adabar police station in Dhaka on December 28 last year.
On December 7, a Dhaka court had asked police to sue the couple for staging an 'abduction drama’.
Metropolitan Magistrate Khurshid Alam had passed the order accepting the final report submitted by the DB in a case filed over the alleged abduction.
On November 14, Mahbubul, also investigation officer of the case, had submitted the report mentioning that police did not find any proof of abduction.
The report had also called for taking action under Sections 109 and 211 of the Penal Code against Farhad Mazhar and his wife for filing a 'false' case.
On July 3 last year, family members had claimed that Farhad had been kidnapped by unknown miscreants from the capital’s Adabar in the early hours of the day.
Later on the same day, police found him in a bus in Jessore around 11:30pm while he was returning to Dhaka from Khulna.
His wife had filed the abduction case with Adabar police. Later, the case was transferred to the DB.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
