Prothom Alo journalist Shamsuzzaman got bail

Prothom Alo journalist Shamsuzzaman got bail on Tk 20,000 bond in a case filed at Ramna Police Station in the capital under the Digital Security Act. He has been granted bail pending a police report.

Shamsuzzaman applied for bail for the second time in the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court of Dhaka on Monday. The court granted him bail. Prashant Karmakar, Shamsuzzaman's lawyer, informed the matter.

Shamsuzzaman was brought to the CMM court last Thursday (March 30). Later, the Ramana Police requested to keep him in jail. Journalist Shamsuzzaman's lawyer applied to the court for bail. On that day, after hearing both sides, the court rejected the bail application and ordered to send him to jail.

Journalist Shamsuzzaman applied for bail in the Digital Security Act case last Thursday. Today he again applied for bail

Shamsuzzaman was taken from the court to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj that day. The next day on Friday, he was taken to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. The next day, on Saturday, he was again brought to Dhaka Central Jail.

14 to 15 people went to Shamsuzzaman's house in Ambagan area next to Jahangirnagar University in Savar at around four in the morning last Wednesday. Posing as members of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of their own police, they searched Shamsuzzaman's living room and took away a laptop, two mobile phones and a portable hard disk used by him. Later they took Shamsuzzaman.

After more than 20 hours of being picked up from home, a case was filed against Shamsuzzaman under the Digital Security Act at Ramna Police Station last Friday night. Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman was made the main accused in this case. He was granted six weeks anticipatory bail in the case yesterday. The plaintiff lawyer in this case is Abdul Malek (Mashiur Malek). He introduced himself as a High Court lawyer.

Prothom Alo's own reporter Shamsuzzaman, who works in Savar, was produced in Dhaka's CMM court yesterday after being picked up from his home in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.