Staff Reporter :
A case is likely to be filed against poet, columnist and stance critic of government Farhad Mazhar under the section 211 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on charge of providing false information, Abdul Baten, Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
“Mazhar was interrogated again as investigators found discrepancies between his earlier statement and their findings. He would be quizzed further in this connection,” the police official said while speaking in a press briefing at DMP media center on Tuesday afternoon.
Abdul Baten, however, ruled out any link to abduction. “Mazhar was not abducted and there is no abductor in this incident. So, he will face legal action for giving false information and harassing law enforcers, he said.
“We will interrogate and verify his testimonial. What truly happened that day, what we saw in his activities, and the evidence found do not match,” the detective official said.
The writer was called in to Detective Branch office around 11:00am. He stayed inside until 1:00pm before leaving the office without speaking to reporters.
On July 13, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque told reporters that Mazhar’s abduction was a drama to make a puzzle for the government. It was a case of self-missing to collect money for one Archana Rani, who already gave a statement in the court.
Earlier, DB personnel of police quizzed Farhad Mazhar, who went missing from capital’s Shyamoli residence and was rescued in Jessore the same day, for a second time at DB office in the city’s Minto Road in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday.
H e was interrogated again as investigators found discrepancies between his earlier statement and their findings, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman.
Farida Akhter, wife of Farhad, said: DB police called us in their office for an interrogation, and we went there at 11:00am accordingly. They wanted to know many things from us, and we told them what we knew.
While many accounts have surfaced over the matter, including that of an extramarital affair, Farhad Mazhar recently told a leading foreign media that “He will not be silenced”.
On July 3, Farhad went missing in the morning after he got out of his house to buy some medicine. He phoned his wife Farida around 9:30am and said he had been abducted and the abductors were demanding Tk 35 lakh for his release.
Law enforcers later rescued him from a Dhaka-bound Hanif Paribahan bus at Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore the same day at 11:30pm.
He was taken to the DB office after he returned to Dhaka. After a primary interrogation, police took him to a court to record his statement on July 4. The court later allowed him to return home following his plea.
Since Mazhar’s wife filed the case based on his phone call we are checking if court action can be taken in this regard.
A case is likely to be filed against poet, columnist and stance critic of government Farhad Mazhar under the section 211 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on charge of providing false information, Abdul Baten, Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
“Mazhar was interrogated again as investigators found discrepancies between his earlier statement and their findings. He would be quizzed further in this connection,” the police official said while speaking in a press briefing at DMP media center on Tuesday afternoon.
Abdul Baten, however, ruled out any link to abduction. “Mazhar was not abducted and there is no abductor in this incident. So, he will face legal action for giving false information and harassing law enforcers, he said.
“We will interrogate and verify his testimonial. What truly happened that day, what we saw in his activities, and the evidence found do not match,” the detective official said.
The writer was called in to Detective Branch office around 11:00am. He stayed inside until 1:00pm before leaving the office without speaking to reporters.
On July 13, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque told reporters that Mazhar’s abduction was a drama to make a puzzle for the government. It was a case of self-missing to collect money for one Archana Rani, who already gave a statement in the court.
Earlier, DB personnel of police quizzed Farhad Mazhar, who went missing from capital’s Shyamoli residence and was rescued in Jessore the same day, for a second time at DB office in the city’s Minto Road in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday.
H e was interrogated again as investigators found discrepancies between his earlier statement and their findings, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman.
Farida Akhter, wife of Farhad, said: DB police called us in their office for an interrogation, and we went there at 11:00am accordingly. They wanted to know many things from us, and we told them what we knew.
While many accounts have surfaced over the matter, including that of an extramarital affair, Farhad Mazhar recently told a leading foreign media that “He will not be silenced”.
On July 3, Farhad went missing in the morning after he got out of his house to buy some medicine. He phoned his wife Farida around 9:30am and said he had been abducted and the abductors were demanding Tk 35 lakh for his release.
Law enforcers later rescued him from a Dhaka-bound Hanif Paribahan bus at Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore the same day at 11:30pm.
He was taken to the DB office after he returned to Dhaka. After a primary interrogation, police took him to a court to record his statement on July 4. The court later allowed him to return home following his plea.
Since Mazhar’s wife filed the case based on his phone call we are checking if court action can be taken in this regard.
