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Shafik Rehman’s bail plea rejected

Manzurul Alam Mukul || risingbd.com

Published: 08:29, 5 May 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Shafik Rehman’s bail plea rejected

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has rejected the journalist Shafik Rehman’s bail plea in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister`s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.


Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Kamrul Hossain Molla passed the order after hearing on a bail petition on Thursday.
On behalf of Shafik Rehman, his lawyer Joynal Abedin Mezba filed the petition.


On April 16, plainclothes detectives arrested Rehman from his Eskaton Road house in the capital. The same day, he was placed on the five-day remand.


Police on April 19, claimed that Rehman admitted to having more than one meeting with those in the US allegedly involved in the plot to abduct and kill Joy, who lives in the US.


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