The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday informed the High Court that it discharged 219 Bangladeshi returnees from a case under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). From now on, they won’t have to appear at the court for hearings in this case.
Earlier today, a hearing took place before the bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Mustafizur Rahman.
Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua was present in favour of the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Md Sarwar Hossain represented the state.
On October 22, the High Court stayed an investigation under section 54 of the CrPC for three months against 83 Bangladeshi workers who returned from Vietnam and Qatar.
Earlier on September 1 this year, 83 Bangladeshi workers, who returned from Vietnam and Qatar and completed their 14-day quarantine in Uttara in the capital, were sent to jail by a Dhaka court on charges of criminal offences in foreign countries.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Satyabrata Sikdar sent them to jail as they were arrested under section 54 of the CrPC.
Officer-in-charge of Turag police station Nurul Mottakin said two among them returned from Qatar while the rest from Vietnam.
The workers were deported on August 18 last following their imprisonment in Qatar and Vietnam over their involvement in criminal offences, he said.
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