Mahmudur kept blindfolded for 10 hours
ET Report

Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of daily Amar Desh, told a Dhaka court Thursday that he was taken to the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters and kept there blindfolded for over ten hours on Wednesday.
He was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka on completion of his four-day remand in a sedition case.
Mahmudur's lawyers and family members, however, claimed DB police tortured him physically and mentally in the name of interrogation for the last few days. After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Mostafa Shahriar passed an order to send Mahmudur to jail in the case.
The court also ordered the jail authorities to provide him with first class division and proper treatment as per the Jail Code.
Meanwhile, the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court yesterday rejected bail petitions filed by Mahmudur in connection with three criminal cases. Judge Mohammad Ismail Hossain passed the order.
Earlier, a lower court rejected Mahmudur's bail petitions. The cases were filed with Kotwali, Uttara and Biman Bandar police stations for obstructing police in discharging their duties, links with banned Hizb ut-Tahrir and sedition charge.
Earlier on June 20, the court rejected Mahmudur's bail petition in connection with another case filed with Tejgaon Police Station on charges of preventing police from discharging their duties on June 2.
Police arrested him on June 2 from the daily's Karwan Bazar office following a fraud case filed by the newspaper's former publisher Hasmat Ali Hasu with Tejgaon industrial area police station.
Later, he was shown arrested in four other criminal cases and remanded for a total of eleven days in the cases.