chtnews.com
News No. 30/2014, Monday, June 16, 2014
A COURT in
Khagrachari has sent 5 Jummas accused in a case filed by BGB in Dighinala,
including two women, to jail, and placed a minor girl, also accused in the same
case, in police safe custody.
The police produced
three women and a girl, wounded in BGB-police attack at Babuchara and who were
undergoing medical treatment at Khagrachari Sadar Hospital, before the
Cognizance Magistrate court in the afternoon today.
Advocate Ashutosh
Chakma, who is also accused in the same case, submitted bail petitions on their
behalf. But Abul Mansoor Siddique, magistrate of the Cognizance Court, granted
bail for only Gopa Devi Chakma.
The court denied bail
to her 16-year-old daughter, Apsori Chakma, and two other co-accused, Maya Rani
Chakma and Phulo Rani Chakma.
The court ordered that
Apsori Chakma be placed in police safe custody, and Maya Rani and Phulo Rani be
sent to jail.
Both of them sustained
head injury and were having difficulty standing at the court.
According to court
sources, they were so weak and frail that they were having difficulties
standing at the court. “They were sitting down again and again on the floor”, a
Jumma lawyer who was present at the hearing told chtnews.com.
He said that section
497 of the Criminal Procedure Code, under which charges were brought against
the accused, is non-bailable, yet in some specific cases the court can grant
bail under this section.
“If the accused is a
woman or old or physically unfit or ill, the court can grant bail.” he said,
adding that he was surprised that they were denied bail although they qualify
for all these conditions.
“First of all, they
are women; secondly, they are old and thirdly physically ill”.
It is to be noted that
earlier on 13 June, the court had ordered the husbands of these two women to be
sent to jail, after they were produced before the court. The police had
arrested them from Khagrachari Sadar hospital gate when they went there to see
their wounded wives.
In another hearing in
the morning today, the court granted bail for one of the accused in the same
case, while denying it to three others.
According to court
sources, four of the 250 accused appeared before the court today in Khagrachari
and appealed for bail.
But the court denied
bail for Mohendra Chakma, 70, Nidhu Ram Chakma, 55, and Natun Chandra Chakma,
60.
However, the court
granted bail to Rabi Joy Chakma.
“It is difficult to
understand why the court granted bail for some of the accused and denied to others,
although all of them are accused in the same case.” a lawyer told chtnews.com.
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