Bail for college student arrested for posting objectionable posts on state minister for water resources
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The court has granted bail to Nishad Islam (20), a college student who was arrested on charges of posting offensive posts on Facebook including the photo of State Minister for Water Resources and Member of Parliament for Panchagarh-2 Farhad Hossain. Panchagarh woman and child abuse court judge (children’s court) Hossain Md. Fazlul Bari granted his bail after the hearing.
Earlier on Friday, Abdus Salam, senior joint convenor of Debiganj Sadar Union Jubo Dal, filed a case under the Cyber Protection Act at Debiganj police station on Saturday morning on charges of a Facebook post insulting the state minister. The police sent the college student to jail through the court on Saturday afternoon showing the arrest in the case.
According to the statement of the case, last Friday, Nishad Islam posted a picture of Panchagarh-2 Constituency Member of Parliament and Water Resources State Minister Farhad Hossain on his Facebook ID. He wrote offensive words in the caption.
According to the police, when the post spread, dissatisfaction spread among the leaders and workers of the local BNP and allied organizations. Later, the police arrested the student at night to control the situation and investigate the matter. Later, he was sent to jail through the court showing his arrest in the case. After learning about the matter, State Minister for Water Resources Farhad Hossain pardoned the college student on Saturday night and appointed a lawyer for legal assistance. Nishad Islam, who got bail, is a resident of Hajipara area of Debiganj Sadar Union. He is a 12th class student of Sonahar Technical and BM College.
Nishad Islam’s father Ashraful Alam said, “The state minister spoke to me today (Sunday) on the phone of a lawyer. At that time, when I apologized to him on behalf of my son, he said that he had forgiven me yesterday (Saturday) and he would make all the arrangements for my son’s bail. Today, the state minister has made all arrangements including the appointment of a lawyer for his son’s bail. I am grateful to him (State Minister)’.
Abdus Salam, the plaintiff in the case, said, “I filed the case because of a bad post on Facebook about my party leader. But since the party and the state minister pardoned him, I had no further complaints. I did not raise any objection during the bail hearing for this.
The lawyer of the case, Mostafizur Rahman, said, “State Minister of Water Resources, Farhad Hossain Azad, gave me the responsibility to provide legal assistance for the bail of that college student.” In the statement of the case, the age of the college student is mentioned as 20 years, but after reviewing his birth certificate and SSC pass certificate, his age is found to be 16 years, 5 months and 7 days. For this, the court transferred the case from Amli Court-1 of the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court to the Children’s Court today. A bail hearing was later held in the presence of the plaintiff. As the plaintiff did not object to the bail at that time, the court granted the bail considering the future life of the student. Later in the evening, the student was released from prison.
Source: Prothom Alo Bangla
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