The High Court has ordered the deputy inspector general of prisons (DIG prisons) to explain why four prisoners were produced before the court in shackles.
The bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath on Thursday ordered the DIG prisons to appear before it on March 9.
On February 5, Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee’s panel lawyer informed the court about 10 prisoners who had been behind bars for more than a decade but their trials were yet to finish.
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The court on February 7 issued a suo-moto rule asking as to why they should not be granted bail. It also asked the prison authorities to produce them before it on Thursday along with their case dockets.
When the prisoners were produced before the court from Keraniganj jail, the court noticed that four of them were in shackles. The police officials who escorted the prisoners from the jail to court informed that the jail authorities sent them in shackles.
Then, the court asked to unshackle them and summoned the DIG prisons to explain.
The four prisoners in shackles were Habibur Rahman, Moniruzzaman, Nasiruddin and Giasuddin. The remaining six were Faruk Hossain, Selim Mia, Raju Jagannath, Haider Ali, Boshir Uddin and Rafuqul Islam Raja.
SC Legal Aid committee’s panel lawyer Syeda Sabina Ahmed Moli said as dockets of nine prisoners did not reach the court in the day, it ordered the authorities concerned to submit the dockets by March 9.
As Faruk's case records were produced before the court, it asked the lower court concerned to finish the trail proceedings against him within three months and, if not completed by that time, to consider his bail.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
