Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court yesterday placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sanaullah passed the order as police produced Khairul Haque before the court with a 10-day remand prayer in the case, sub-inspector Md Zinnat said.
The case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station under Sections 219 and 466 of the Penal Code.
According to the Section 219, whoever, being a public servant, corruptly or maliciously makes or pro-nounces in any stage of a judicial proceeding, any report, order, verdict or decision which he knows to be contrary to law, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may ex-tend to seven years or with fine or with both.
The Section 466 says, whoever forges a document, purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court of Justice or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial or a register kept by a public servant as such or a certificate or document purporting to be made by a public servant in his official capacity or an authority to institute or defend a suit or to take any proceedings therein or to confess judgment or a power of attorney, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may ex-tend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.
On July 24, a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Khairul from his city’s Dhanmondi residence.
On the same day, Khairul was sent to jail in connection with a case filed over the killing of Jubo Dal activist Abdul Kaiyum Ahad, 16, in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area on July 18 last year.
