Samrat sent back to prison

Former Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, a “kingpin” of the illegal casino business in the capital, was sent to jail after rejection of his bail in connection with a case filed under the arms act.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah passed the order after Rab Sub-inspector Shekor Chandra Mallick, also the investigation officer of the case, produced Samrat before the court on expiry of his five-day remand.

The court also ordered the jail authorities to provide Samrat with better treatment as per the Jail Code after his lawyer submitted a petition in this regard to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

In yesterday’s forwarding report, the IO said Samrat has provided important information, adding that he needs to be confined in jail until the investigation is completed.

Earlier on October 15, Samrat was was placed on a total 10-day remand in the two cases filed with Ramna Police Station under arms and narcotics control acts.

Another IO, Sub-inspector Abdul Halim interrogated Samrat for five days in remand in the case filed under the narcotics control act.  

On October 6, Rab members arrested Samrat, former president of Dhaka South Jubo League, and his close aide Enamul Haque Arman, former vice-president of the same unit, in Cumilla after raiding a house near Indian border.

Rab members at a press briefing said they had seized two torture devices, a pistol with five bullets, two hides of kangaroo, 1,160 yaba pills and 19 bottles of foreign liquor from there.

A Rab mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam, sentenced Samrat to six months’ imprisonment for possessing wild animal hides and another six months for possessing illegal liquor.

Rab filed the two cases against him with Ramna Police Station the next day.