A Sylhet Court on Saturday sent Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a former Supreme Court judge, to jail after showing him arrested under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Judicial magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed the order as the police produced him before the court.
Witnesses said that many people were seen trying to attack former justice Manik and they also humiliated him throwing eggs and shoes at him when he was taken to the district judicial magistrate court at about 4:10pm.
The court ordered sending the former justice to jail after holding a hearing in 10 minutes on the allegations brought against the former Justice, the court sources said.
Earlier, the Border Guard Bangladesh detained former Justice Manik while he was allegedly trying to flee the country through the Dona border at Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet on Friday night, the police said.
Kanaighat police station officer-in-charge Zahangir Hossain Sarder told 抖阴精品 that a patrol team of the BGB detained him while he was trying to flee the country and later handed him over to the police station early Saturday.
Responding to a query, he told that former Justice Manik was accused in a case filed with a court in Dhaka.
鈥楾he BGB has not filed any fresh case against him. We produced the former Supreme Court justice before the district judicial court after showing him arrested under Section 54 of the code of criminal procedure,鈥� the police officer told 抖阴精品.
The former Supreme Court Justice was seen alleging in a video clip posted on social media platform Facebook that he had a British passport and a Bangladeshi one along with several bank credit cards after his arrest by the BGB.
鈥業 was leaving the country in fear. Two youths here told me that they would take me to the Indian territory crossing the border if I pay them Tk 15,000,鈥� he said.
鈥楢fter paying Tk 15,000, the two youths snatched away everything from me, including cash Tk 60 to 70 lakh and my mobile phone,鈥� he was heard as saying in the video clip.
The Justice added that the youths left him on banana leaves as he got sick after they had beaten him.
Manik retired as a Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 2015.
