HC asks police not to torture Jamaat trio

15 July 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed police not to torture Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in any manner after taking them on remand in a sedition case. A division bench of Justice Syed Mohammad Dastagir Husain and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque ordered the police authorities to allow their counsels to meet them for legal consultations. It asked the authorities to take steps for medical check-ups of the Jamaat top brass who spent most of the time on remand in different cases since their arrests on June 29. The court also asked them to supply pillows to the remanded Jamaat leaders for sleeping. It passed the order following a petition filed by the Jamaat leaders challenging the remand orders against them. A Dhaka court on June 30 placed the Jamaat trio on remand for interrogation in the sedition case filed with Uttara Police Station in March this year. Abdur Razzaq appeared for the petitioners while Additional Attorney General Momtazuddin Fakir represented the government.