Blogger Ananta murder case
Sylhet court rejects journo Idris bail plea again
UNB
A Sylhet court yesterday rejected the bail petition filed by local photojournalist Idris Ali for the second time in connection with with blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder, reports UNB. Farhana Yasmin, judge of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court-2, passed the order after hearing the petition. Earlier on June 17, the same court rejected the bail petition of Idris. On June 15, the court sent him to jail after a seven-day remand he was put on June 8. On June 7, a team of CID arrested Idris, a photojournalist of the Daily Sabuj Sylhet published in Sylhet and son of Ilias Ali of Fatehgarh village under Airport Police Station, from his residence. Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on May 12. On May 13, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with the Airport Police Station. Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the Mukto-Mona blog, founded by blogger Avijit Roy - who had been after he came home from the USA.
