Daily Amar Desh former acting editor Desh Mahmudur Rahman will surrender to the lower court tomorrow (Sunday).
He was sentenced 7 years imprisonment in his absentia in a case filed on the charge of an attempt for abduction and murder Sajib Wajed Joy, son of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, BSS reports.
Advocate Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah on Saturday told the news agency that Mahmudur Rahman will surrender before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court as a fugitive and will pray for bail.
Advocate Mesbah said they will also file an appeal before the court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Dhaka, in case the CMM denies his bail considering the limit of his power to grant in a case with 7 years imprisonment.
In that case, the lawyer said, they will also pray for granting division in the jail for Mahmudur Rahman as per jail code, he added.
Mahmudur Rahman was convicted by the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACCM) Asaduzzaman Noor on August 17 last year.
Senior journalist Shafique Rehman, Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskrit Sangtha (JASAS) leaders Mohammadullah, Rizvi Ahmed Sejar and Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan were also convicted in the same case.
The court delivered the verdict on the basis of false, fabricated and baseless allegation in a farcical trial, advocate Mesbah added.
According to the case statement, the accused persons held a meeting at home and abroad for kidnapping and kill Sajib Wajed Joy, the then ICT advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in September 2011.
Mahmudur Rahman returned home on Friday last after a long self-exile in Turkey.
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