Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of detained Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in four more cases, a day after the court took a similar action against him in a murder case.
Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate SM Alauddin Mahmud issued the order after a virtual hearing, state-run BSS news agency reported.
A former ISKCON leader, Das, was arrested at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on November 25 last year in a sedition case over alleged defamation of the national flag.
His bail petition was rejected by a Chattogram court, which sent him to jail the next day.
His arrest sparked widespread protests, with his followers demonstrating in Dhaka and other places.
The four cases on which the court took action on Tuesday include obstruction of police duties at the Kotwali police station and attacks on lawyers and justice seekers, according to Assistant Public Prosecutor Md Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury.
“The court granted the plea to show him (Das) arrested after the hearing,” news portal bdnews24 quoted Chowdhury as saying.
Das was presented to the court virtually for the hearing, considering his “security and overall situation,” an official was quoted as saying by the report.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
