Walking on human bridge: Upazila chairman’s bail scraped

Staff Correspondent: The High Court has scraped the bail granted to Chandpur’s Haimchar upazila Chairman Nur Hossain Patwary in a case filed for walking over a ‘human bridge’ formed by school students.

A bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sahidul Karim passed the order on Wednesday.

Earlier, the High Court questioned the legality of granting bail to Chandpur’s Haimchar upazila Chairman Nur Hossain Patwary in the case.

A picture of Nur Hossain walking over a ‘human bridge’ formed by students of Nilkamal School went viral on social media, drawing outrage and criticism, in the first week of February.

Abdul Kadir Gazi, a student's guardian, lodged the case against five people, including Nur, also general secretary of Haimchar upazila unit Awami League, under the children act.

The HC issued a rule asking the judge of Shishu Adalot (child court) of Chandpur to show cause in two weeks of granting bail Nur Hossain in this case.

In the rule, the court also asked the judge under which authority the bail was granted and the government to explain why the order of bail to Nur Hossain should not be scrapped.



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