The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule, asking authorities concerned to explain within two weeks as to why it shall not allow former leader of International Society for Krishna Consciousness Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari bail in a sedition case.
A High Court division bench of justices Md Atoar Rahman and Md Ali Reza passed the order after holding primary hearing on a plea filed by Chinmoy for granting him bail in the case.
Advocates Apurbo Kumar Bhattacharya and Prabir Ranjan Haldar moved the plea before the court, while additional attorney generals Aneek Rushd Haque and Mohammad Arshadur Rouf stood for the state.
The case was filed against Chinmoy and 18 others on October 31, 2024, for disrespecting the national flag. Chinmoy was arrested in the capital on November 25. Chattogram metropolitan magistrate court on November 26 sent Chinmoy to jail, scrapping his bail plea.
Chinmoy鈥檚 followers, armed with machetes and other local weapons attacked police and lawyers on the court premises on that day, barbarically hacking and killing advocate Saiful Islam Alif on the spot.
