A Dhaka court today sent Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former information adviser to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and chairman of private television channel DBC News, to jail in a murder case linked to the July Mass Uprising in 2024.
According to Media reports, detectives detained Iqbal Sobhan and DBC reporter Rajib Ghosh from the channel’s Mohakhali office yesterday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order after police produced him before the court.
The case concerns the killing of madrasa student Md Arif, who was shot in Jatrabari, Dhaka, on July 19, 2024. His father filed a murder case in August that year. Mr. Rajib Ghosh, reporter, was subsequently released.
