Shawkat Mahmud shifted to Kashimpur jail

Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalist President Shawkat Mahmud was shifted to Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur on Saturday night. Jailor of Kashimpur Central Jail Mohammed Nasir Ahmed said Sawkat, former president of the National Press Club, was shifted here from Dhaka Central Jail at around 11 pm. Meanwhile, police yesterday showed Shawkat Mahmud arrested in eight more cases and sought an eighty-day remand for him.
The Dhaka court fixed today for hearing the prayer, asking the jail authorities to produce Shawkat, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, before it. The cases were filed for assaulting policemen, preventing them from discharging their duties, damaging and torching vehicles, and throwing crude and petrol bombs at passengers' buses in the city's Paltan and Motijheel areas in January and February this year during the BNP-led 20-party alliance blockade programme.

Shawkat Mahmud shifted to Kashimpur jail

Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalist President Shawkat Mahmud was shifted to Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur on Saturday night. Jailor of Kashimpur Central Jail Mohammed Nasir Ahmed said Sawkat, former president of the National Press Club, was shifted here from Dhaka Central Jail at around 11 pm. Meanwhile, police yesterday showed Shawkat Mahmud arrested in eight more cases and sought an eighty-day remand for him. The Dhaka court fixed today for hearing the prayer, asking the jail authorities to produce Shawkat, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, before it. The cases were filed for assaulting policemen, preventing them from discharging their duties, damaging and torching vehicles, and throwing crude and petrol bombs at passengers buses in the citys Paltan and Motijheel areas in January and February this year during the BNP-led 20-party alliance blockade programme.