French journo gets bail

Court sources said the French national Manda Garan, 55, who was produced before the court of Magistrate M I Siddique, prayed bail for himself and the court granted it.

Manda Garan came to Bangladesh on February 26 on a six-month entry visa and went to India on February 28 after crossing the Benapole border illegally as Indian government denied him visa.

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When contacted, he told the local journalists that he went to India for making a film on Babri Mosque demolition by the Hindu bigots in Ayoddha in 1992.