Former-ISKCON leader Chinmoy Das Brahmachari. Photo : BSS

CHATTOGRAM, May 5, 2025 (BSS)- A Chattogram court here today ordered to show detained former-ISKCON leader  Chinmoy Das Brahmachari as arrested in lawyer Saiful Islam Alif murder case.
 
Metropolitan Magistrate SM Alauddin issued the order after a virtual hearing today.

Court sources said detainee was not present in person before the court during the hearing due to security reason.  
The investigating officer of the advocate Alif murder case moved the petition before the court seeking Sanatan Zagoron Jote spokesperson Chimoy Brahmachari as‘ shown arrested’ in the sensational murder case. 

Police also filed four separate applications seeking court decision for implicating the name of Chinmoy on four different charges including Alif killing case.

Today the court heard virtually one of the plea filed by police. Three other applications will come up for hearing on Tuesday.
 
Assistant Public Prosecutor Advocate Raihanul Wazed Chowdhury said that the investigating officer filed the petition after uncovering Chinmoy's involvement in the murder during the investigation.

Chinmoy is currently in jail in a sedition case filed with Kotwali Police Station for allegedly desecrating the national flag.  
A DMP DB team arrested him from Dhaka airport on November 26 last year and was produced before the court on following day. The court sent him to jail after rejecting his bail plea.

Following rejection of bail petition, his supporters staged a rowdy protest in and around the court building premises. The unruly protesters also locked into violent clashes with police intercepting the police prison van carrying Chinmoy for hours.

The demonstrators also vandalized vehicles, others establishments and attacked lawyers at that time. 

At one stage of melee, advocate Alif was beaten and chopped to death brutally amid a triangular clash involving Chinmoy's supporters, police, and a group of people who were protesting the rowdy acts of Chnmoy supporters. 

Following the the incident, police filed three separate cases for attacking police, vandalism, and obstructing duties of law enforcement agencies naming 79 individuals and accusing approximately 1,400 unidentified.

Alif's father later filed the murder case against 31 individuals, while his brother, Khan-e-Alam, filed another case with Kotwali Police Station, naming 115 accused including 70 lawyers, over vandalism.

A High Court bench granted bail to Chinmoy on April 30 last, but Chamber Judge stayed his bail upon a prayer of the prosecution.