HC scraps jail sentences of Adilur, Elan

The High Court (HC) has scrapped the two-year jail sentences of Human Rights organisation Odhikar’s Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and its Director Nasiruddin Elan in an ICT case (presently Cyber Security Act).

A single bench of the HC, led by Justice Md Abdur Rob, on Thursday passed the order following appeals filed by Adilur and Elan against their jail sentences. 

On September 14, 2023, Dhaka Cyber Tribunal sentenced Adilur and Elan to two years in jail in the case filed for distorting information about police action on a Hefajat-e-Islam rally in Motijheel in the capital in 2013.

At the same time, they were fined Tk10,000 each and sentenced to a one-month jail sentence in default.