Bangladesh HC rejects bail plea of Hindu monk Chinmoy Das

Dhaka: Bangladesh's High Court on Sunday rejected a bail petition of Hindu monk Brahmachari Chinmoy Krishna Das since he is being tried in a lower court in connection with a lawyer's murder in 2024. Das, a spokesperson for the Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote, was arrested from Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on November 25, 2024 for alleged sedition.

He was jailed after he was denied bail by a court in the southeastern port city of Chattogram, which prompted his followers to protest in Dhaka and other places the next day.

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The protest turned violent in Chattogram, where the lawyer, a junior government prosecutor Saiful Islam Alif, was killed.

"The High Court bench rejected our bail petition as recording of witnesses testimony is underway in the trial (lower) court in Chattogram," Das' lawyer Apurba Kumar Bhattacharya told reporters.