Innocent Woman Jailed
HC asks cops to produce her
The High Court yesterday directed the police officials concerned to produce before it Anjuara Begum, who is allegedly suffering in prison for around three months in place of an accused Laily Begum.
In response to a writ petition, the HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das passed the order asking police to produce Anjuara before it by 11:00am today to examine the legality of her detention.
According to media reports, a team of police, led by Bogra Sadar Police Station Sub-Inspector Imran Kabir, arrested Anjuara of Nisindhara Paikpara in Bogra on August 3. They showed her as Laily Begum before a lower court and sent her to jail.
Advocate Manzill Murshid, who filed the writ petition on behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, told The Daily Star that it was not known in which district's jail Anjuara is now suffering.
Laily Begum was accused in four cases filed under the Narcotics Act – one with Bogra Sadar Police Station in 2003, another with Natore Sadar Police Station in 2005, and two other cases with Panchbibi Police Station in Joypurhat in 2008.
She was the wife of Dudu Mia alias Budu Mia alias Azad of Charmatha Nisodhara of the town.
Manzill said any of the superintendents of police of Bogra, Natore and Joypurhat, who is responsible, and the officer-in-charge of Bogra Police Station have to produce Anjuara before the HC today.
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