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News No. 44/2014,
Monday, June 30, 2014
The seven Jumma
villagers arrested following a protest against forcible land acquisition for a
BGB battalion headquarters in Dighinala have been denied bail for the forth
time, court sources say.
The Cognizance Court
of Magistrate Saiful Alam Chowdhury turned down their plea for bail when they
were produced before the court at 12:30pm today.
Among these seven
people are two women in their sixties and fifties and a 16-year-old school
girl, who passed SSC exams this year and is waiting to be admitted to a
college.
The rest are elderly
men, who had no part in the protest demo.
The 16-year-old girl,
Apsari Chakma, burst into tears when she saw her mother in the court room. She
was brought in from Hathazari Samaj Seba Kendra, a reformatory centre for
juvenile offenders in Chittagong.
She and the other
women were arrested from Khagrachari Sadar Hospital while undergoing treatment
for injuries they sustained during the 10 June brutal BGB-police joint attack
on them.
Advocates Ashutosh
Chakma, Samari Chakma, Ratan Chowdhury and Abul Hassan filed bail petitions on
their behalf.
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