A city Juba League leader facing a seven-year jail term on Thursday told the High Court that his lawyers advised him to hire a person to go behind the bar instead of him.
Nazmul Hasan of Uttara Paschim Juba League unit made the statement through his lawyer Sayed Ahmed Raza, a Bangladesh Bar Council member, to the bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal that Mirajul Islam, a 23-year-old from Phulpur in Mymensingh, was the person who agreed to serve the jail term under a negotiation.聽聽聽
Earlier on February 15, the High Court ordered probe into the incident of wrongful detention taking cognisance of a report titled 鈥楯uba League leader鈥檚 fraudulence practice in narcotic case鈥� published by Dainik Kalbela on February 15.聽聽
Supreme Court lawyer Manzill Murshid drew the attention of the court to the report stating that Mirajul suffered in jail for 16 days, impersonating the convict, the ruling AL-backed youth body鈥檚 ward unit leader Nazmul.
Manzill brought the issue to the HC when it was scheduled for February 25, 2024 its verdict in the appeal filed in 2023 by Mirajul Islam impersonating Nazmul.
Now, the verdict of the case will pass on May 12.
Earlier on April 24, the bench asked Nazmul to explain his position about the detention of Mirajul Islam.
Lawyer Sayed Ahmed told the High Court that the convict, Nazmul is now remained under his custody.
Nazmul鈥檚 lower court lawyer Nazrul Islam and Ariful Islam told the High Court that Mirajul with Nazmul鈥檚 NID card came to the chamber and introduced self as Nazmul after the verdict on July 4, 2023, and he later surrendered in the trial court on August 9, 2023.聽聽聽聽
Lawyers Nazrul and Ariful, however, apologised in the High Court stating that if anything is found beyond their knowledge, then they seek unconditional apology for 鈥榮uch false or wrong person鈥�.
Nazmul鈥檚 previous HC lawyer Ramjan Khan told 抖阴精品 that he conducted Nazmul鈥檚 appeal against the seven years鈥� jail following instructions from a broker, who gave him the case.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
Ramjan said that Uttara Paschim police recently arrested Nazmul under Section 54 of Code of Criminal Procedure stating that he is wanted in narcotic case.
He said that the Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate court on the same day freed him from the court.聽聽聽聽
Earlier on February 15, the High Court also asked the Department of Narcotics Control to submit the probe report to the court in this connection on February 25.
The High Court sought explanation from the lawyers, the jail authority and the lower court as no probe report was submitted yet.
The jail authority told the court that they are bound to receive any accused if the court sends to them with the courts鈥� order.
They later took photograph of the accused and recorded their heights and weights, the complexion and identification spots of the bodies.
The jail authority said that no one informed the jail authority that Mirajul impersonated Nazmul.
Nazmul was convicted of possessing phensedyl and hemp near Rabindra Sarani at sector 7 at Uttara in the capital on August 7, 2020.
According to the newspaper report, Juba League leader Nazmul and his associate Anwar managed Mirajul to serve Nazmul鈥檚 jail term and offered him huge money and a flat in the capital.
The report said that Nazmul paid Mirajul Tk聽50,000 and refused to meet the promise when he demanded after getting release on bail.