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DHAKA, Aug 18, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today sent to jail Jatiyabadi Krishok Dal general secretary Shahidul Islam Babul in a case lodged with the city's Paltan Model Police Station for obstructing law enforcers from conducting their duties and holding illegal gathering.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Saifuzzaman passed the order as Babul surrendered before the court and pleaded for bail. The court sent him to jail, scrapping his bail plea.
"This court does not have the jurisdiction to allow bail to convict, who has been sentenced to jail term of more than two years. So the court sent him to jail after declining his bail plea. We would file a bail plea again tomorrow with the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court," said defence counsel Sadekul Islam Bhuiyan.
Police in 2017 filed the case for allegedly obstructing traffic on a VIP Road and trying to vandalize vehicles. Charge-sheet in the case was filed in 2019.
The court on November 23, 2023, pronounced judgment in the case, sentencing Shahidul Islam Babul to two and a half years of jail under one charge and another one year jail under another.
