DHAKA, Sept 14, 2023 (BSS) - A special court here today convicted and sentenced Adilur Rahman Khan Suvro and ASM Nasir Uddin Elan, secretary and director respectively of rights body Odhikar, to two-year imprisonment in a case lodged under ICT Act.

Judge AM Julfikar Hayat of Dhaka Cyber Tribunal pronounced the judgment in presence of the two convicts. The court also fined them Taka 10 thousand each, or to suffer one-month more behind bars in default.

Detective Branch (DB) of police on August 10, 2013, filed a general diary with the Gulshan Police Station against the duo for running distorted information and doctored images regarding the law enforcement agencies' action on a rally of Hefajat-e-Islam in capital's Motijheel on May 5-6, 2013. The matter was later converted into a case.

Odhikar in its report posted on its website, reported that 61 people were killed in the police raid on that night. It also ran some grisly but doctored images over that raid. After conducting the probe, DB filed charge-sheet against Adilur and Elan on September 4, 2013. The case was taken into cognizance by Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on September 11 and they were indicted in 2014.