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High Court today scrapped Dhaka Cyber Tribunal's judgment that had convicted
and sentenced Adilur Rahman Khan Suvro and ASM Nasir Uddin Elan, secretary and
director respectively of rights body Odhikar, to two-year imprisonment in a
case lodged under ICT Act.
A
High Court bench of Justice Abdur Rob came up with the judgment, allowing a
criminal appeal filed in this regard.
"The
High Court has allowed the appeal filed by Adilur Rahman Khan Suvro and ASM
Nasir Uddin Elan. Now they are completely free of the charges of that false
case. Truth has prevailed through this judgment and the falsehood has been
defeated," defence counsel Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan said.
Dhaka
Cyber Tribunal on September 14, 2023, had pronounced its judgment in presence
of the two convicts. The court also fined them Taka 10 thousand each, or to
suffer one-month more behind bars in default.
Detective
Branch (DB) of police on August 10, 2013, filed a general diary with the
Gulshan Police Station against the duo for what they said, "running
distorted information and doctored images" regarding the law enforcement
agencies' action on a rally of Hefajat-e-Islam in capital's Motijheel on May
5-6, 2013. The matter was later converted into a case.
After
conducting the probe, DB filed charge-sheet against Adilur and Elan on
September 4, 2013. The case was taken into cognizance by Dhaka Cyber Tribunal
on September 11 and they were indicted in 2014.
Odhikar
in its report posted on its website, reported that 61 people were killed in the
police raid on that night.
