Photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol is greeted by his son Monorom Polok after coming out of Dhaka Central Jail on Friday, December 25, 2020 CollectedCharge-sheet in case by an Awami League activist filed with a Dhaka courtInvestigators have pressed charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol in a case filed under the Digital Security Act with Dhaka’s Hazaribagh police station. Kajol has been named in two other similar cases filed with the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Kamrangirchar police stations. On March 9 last year, he was named in a Digital Security case filed by Magura-1 MP Saifuzzaman Shikhor over a report on individuals ‘involved’ in the disgraced ruling party operative Shamima Noor Papia’s alleged escort services out of The Westin Dhaka. Two more Digital Security cases were started with the Hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar police stations on March 10 and 11. Since then Kajol had been in jail until he was released on bail in December last year.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 08, 2021 14:41 UTC