PLOT TO ABDUCT, KILL JOY Arrest warrant issued against Shafik Rehman, three others

A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate’s court on Tuesday accepted charge sheet against senior journalist Shafik Rehman, Bangla daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman and three others in a case for alleged plot to kidnap and kill prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
Metropolitan magistrate Sarafuzzaman Ansari accepted the charges against the five and issued warrants for the arrest of Shafik and three fugitive accused – Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha vice-president Mohammad Ullah Mamun, his son Rizvi Ahmed Caesar and expatriate businessman in the United States Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan.
The court also asked the police to report the execution of the warrants by April 6, said chief metropolitan magistrate court’s general
registering officer sub-inspector Jalal Hossain. 
On February 22, Detective Branch assistant commissioner Hassan Arafat, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court. The court had set March 6 for its order on the charge sheet.
According to the charge sheet, police mentioned Shafik and Mahmudur as masterminds behind the ‘conspiracy to kidnap and kill Joy’ while Mamun aided and abetted it.
Rizvi Ahmed Caesar collected information on Joy from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and sent it to the other accused while Mizanur Rahman financed, aided and abetted, said the charge sheet.
According to the case statement, Mamun along with some top leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies met at places in Bangladesh, including JASAS office and BNP office, and in the United States before September 2011 and conspired to abduct and kill Joy.
Later, they asked Mamun’s son Caesar to carry out the plan while leaders of BNP and allies financed the plot. Rizvi was nabbed in the United States and was jailed for 42 months a US court for bribing an FBI special agent to collect information apparently on Joy.
Caesar reportedly told the US court that he obtained some information about Joy from an FBI agent by bribing him.
Later, he gave the information to a Bangladeshi journalist, also a political ally and a private detective.
In a Facebook post on March 9, 2015, Joy, also the ICT affairs adviser to the prime minister, accused BNP leaders of conspiring to abduct and kill him.
On August 3, 2015, Detective Branch inspector Fazlur Rahman filed the case with Paltan Police Station against Mohammad Ullah Mamun.
Mamun, Caesar and Mizanur are still in hiding.
Mahmudur Rahman and Shafik Rehman were on bail.
The court on Tuesday, however, issued warrant for the arrest of Shafik 
As he was absent and his bail was valid until submission of the charge sheet. The court passed the order rejecting Shafik’s lawyer’s petition for extension of his bail stating that Shafik was abroad and would appear before the court on his return. 

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net