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CHATTOGRAM, June 16, 2025 (BSS) - A Chattogram Court today granted a petition to quiz ISKCON leader and spokesman of Sanatani Jagaran Jote Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari at the jail gate in another case filed over attacking police and vandalism on the court premises.

Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate SM Alauddin passed the order today after hearing the petition submitted by the investigation officer of the case.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Advocate Md. Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury confirmed the matter, noting that the incident occurred during a bail hearing for Chinmoy, who is already in custody in a sedition case.

Earlier, on May 18, the court ordered Chinmoy to be questioned at the jail gate in the sedition case for the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam and disrespecting the national flag.

Chinmoy was arrested from Dhaka on November 25 last year in a sedition case for disrespecting the Bangladeshi flag. He is currently in Chattogram Central Jail.

The next day, he was shown arrested and produced before the court in a treason case filed at the Kotwali Police Station. The court rejected his bail and ordered him to be sent to jail.

On the same day, Chinmoy Das' lawyers filed a revision petition against the order for bail. Lawyer Saiful Islam Alif was killed in a clash over his bail.

A total of six cases were filed at the city's Kotwali Thana including murder of a lawyer, attacks on police, vandalism of vehicles, attacks on lawyers and litigants and cocktail explosions.