Abdul Kader, a Dhaka University student who was tortured in police custody after being arrested on July 16, was granted bail on Monday in a case of alleged carjacking.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Utpal Chowdhury granted him the bail upon a bond of
Tk 5,000 and also rejected
a police plea for a seven-
day remand to interrogate him over the alleged carjacking.
Kader, student of biochemistry and molecular biology department of the university, could not be produced in the court as he was undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University following a High Court order on July 28.
At the bail hearing, Kader's counsel Abdul Matin Khasru, also former law minister, told the court that that the charge brought against the DU
student was false as his name was not mentioned in the first information report.
Kader sustained grievous injuries due to torture in the custody of Khilgaon police, the lawyer added.
The case was filed with Mohammadpur police station by Monjur Uddin Bepari, driver of the car that was hijacked on July 14 from the capital's Lalmatia area.
Bepari lodged the case against three or four unknown people.
Kader was arrested early July 16 on a road near the Anti-Corruption Commission office at Segun Baghicha in the capital on charge of robbery, when he was on his way to Fazlul Haque Hall of the university from his relative's house in the Holy Family Hospital quarters.
He was later implicated in two other cases with Khilgaon police. Another case was filed against him with Mohammadpur police station.
Kader's mother on Wednesday filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission which asked the IGP to investigate the matter and report the findings to the commission by August 3.
Hearing on Kader's bail petitions in connection with two cases – one for possessing sharp weapons and another for robbery – will be held on August 3.
Source : New Age
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