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HC stays Proshika chief's remand

Asks the government to explain the manner of Qazi Faruque Ahmed's custody and send him to hospital

Staff Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday put Proshika President Qazi Faruque Ahmed on a five-day remand on a sedition charge, but the High Court stayed the order and asked the government to reply in two weeks why the way he is being held in custody would not be declared illegal.
The HC also directed the authorities to treat the NGO leader at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) until his recovery. But he was kept at Pallabi Police Station till 10:00 last night.
On the sidelines of court proceedings, police seized booklets, leaflets and posters raiding the Proshika headquarters in Mirpur in an attempt to find out evidence linking the organisation to an oust-government plot.
Earlier on the day, police took an ailing Faruque to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka and prayed for taking him on a 10-day remand in connection with the sedition case filed on Sunday.
"Top Proshika officials in connivance with others held a meeting on March 7 to plot a oust-government design," said the remand petition signed by Nurul Amin, officer-in-charge of Pallabi Police Station and investigation officer of the sedition case filed against the Proshika president and six other officials.
They attempted to hire thousands of people across the country between March 7 and April 30 and gather them in Dhaka to form an opposition platform, the petition said.
"He needs to be questioned extensively to know who else were involved in the oust-government plot," the petition read.
Magistrate Mohammad Sujayetullah granted the five-day police remand.
The Proshika chief has so far got bail in 12 of 18 cases filed against him.
Defence lawyers Zahirul Islam, Qamrul Islam and Khondoker Abdul Mannan moved a petition for Faruque bail and cancellation of his remand, arguing the police would torture the ailing Proshika chief physically and mentally during interrogation.
The court turned down the bail petition and upheld its remand
order.
The defence lawyers submitted another petition for deferring the remand for two days on grounds that they would challenge the remand order in the HC. The court took the petition on records, but did not pass any order.
Faruque's lawyers Barrister Amir-ul Islam and Rokanuddin Mahmud moved a writ petition in the HC, challenging the legality of the remand.
Hearing the petition, a HC Division Bench of Justice MA Matin and Justice Tariq-ul Hakim stayed the remand and issued the rule.
Pallabi police led by OC Nurul Amin entered the Proshika headquarters at 11:15am and searched the president's office on the seventh floor and some other offices on the second floor of the 14-storey building.
They seized several booklets, leaflets and posters of Oikyabadha Nagorik Andolon, a civil rights group, of which the Proshika chief is a former member secretary.
Police kept the gate under lock during the raid that ended at 12:50pm, and let nobody to enter or go out of the building during the operation.
The move to accuse the Proshika officials of sedition began on Sunday when Sub-Inspector Abdur Rahim Khan of Pallabi Police Station filed a petition to the CMM court.
On hearing the petition, Magistrate Emdadul Haque directed the OC of Pallabi police to register it as a regular case and take legal action against the Proshika president and Director Sahnewaz and deputy directors Sirajul Islam, Mahbub Alam, Fazlul Huq, Sirajul Haq and Abdur Rab.
Police arrested Faruque on May 21 on charge of embezzlement of fund and fraud. The Bureau of AntiCorruption also filed 15 cases against him and some of his colleagues on May 15.