The High Court yesterday stayed the lower court remand order of AKM Fakhrul Islam, counsel of war criminal and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in the case filed in connection with the verdict leak of the International Crimes Tribunal.
The HC also ordered for sending Fakhrul to jail immediately and gave permission to the investigation officer to interrogate him if necessary.
The bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam passed the order following a petition lodged under the penal code for scrapping the lower court’s remand order.
AJ Mohammad Ali pleaded for Fakhrul while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam contended for state.
Raghib Rauf Chowdhury, another lawyer of the petitioner, told the Dhaka Tribune that the HC had also issued a rule asking why the remand order should not be annulled.
Dhaka district deputy commissioner and Habibul Gani, inspector of Detective Branch of Police, have been asked to respond to the rule by four weeks, Rauf said.
On Sunday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Emdadul Haque sent Fakhrul Islam to police custody for four days in the case filed with the Shahbagh police station under the Information and Communication Technology Act for his alleged involvement in divulging the verdict that gave death penalty to SQ Chowdhury.
Law enforcers nabbed Fakhrul on November 20 from the capital’s Segun Bagicha.
