‘Shishu Bokta’ put on remand under DSA

Court Correspondent :
A virtual court of Dhaka on Thursday placed Rafiqul Islam Madani, widely known as “Shishu Bokta”, on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Motijheel Police Station in the capital under the Digital Security Act.
Magistrate Abu Sufiyan Md Noman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) of Dhaka yesterday passed the order after Kazi Md Nasirul Amin, Inspector of Cyber
Tribunal and Special Crime Unit of Detective Branch of police, and also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case submitted a 10-day remand petition to the court.
During the hearing, the court sent a virtual link to the jail authorities of Kashimpur High-Security Jail and passed the remand order seeing the accused virtually.
On April 8, one Syed Adnan Shanto filed the case with Motijheel Police Station against Rafiqul Islam Madani, alleging passing of anti-state remarks and incitement of chaos.
Apart from Rafiqul Islam, four others Mohammad Amzad, Mahmudul Hassan Murtuza, HM Lokman Hossain and Tawhid Islam have also been made accused in the case.
The complainant mentioned in the First Information Report that Rafiqul Islam had made various anti-state and chaos-inciting remarks on YouTube and other social media platforms.
On Wednesday, he was placed on a nine-day remand in two cases filed with Motijheel and Tejgaon police stations.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Rafiqul Islam from his ancestral home in a village of Netrakona.