Chattogram: A Chattogram court today placed Dr. Kathak Das on a two-day remand in a sedition case filed with the city’s Kotwali Thana on October 31 last year against 19 people. The court of Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sarkar Hasan Shahriar granted the remand for interrogation after the investigation officer of the case produced him before the court with a 10-day remand prayer, stated Md Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury, Assistant Public Prosecutor of the court.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the sedition case was filed against 19 individuals including Chandan Kumar Dhar alias Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari and Dr. Kathak Das on the charge of disrespecting the national flag at the ‘Swadhinata Stambha’ at the city’s New Market intersection area on October 31. The incident involved a group of youths reportedly installing a saffron-coloured flag over the Bangladeshi flag on the Independence Pillar at Zero Point, during a rally organized by the Hindu community under the banner “Sanatan Jagaran Mancha” on October 25 in 2024.
Feroz Khan, a resident of the city’s Mohra area under Chandgaon Thana, filed the case with Kotwali Thana in the city. Earlier, Dr. Kathak Das was detained by the immigration police while attempting to travel to the UK via Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday night. He was subsequently handed over to Chattogram Metropolitan Police.
Dr. Kathak Das is an ophthalmologist, serving as a phaco surgeon at Lions Charity Eye Hospital and a consultant at Bangladesh Eye Hospital.