Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA), was released from Kashinpur Central Jail on Thursday.

He came out of the prison around 12:25pm, the jail super Abdul Jalil confirmed.

The necessary documents reached the jail at 11am and he was released after scrutinising the papers, Abdul Jalil added.

On Wednesday, the High Court granted six months' bail to cartoonist Kishore in the DSA case.

The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman accepted his bail plea.

Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua took part in the hearing for the petition, while Deputy Attorney General Sarwar Hossain Bappi stood for the state.

Earlier on February 28, a lower court concerned had scrapped a plea of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of the police to take Kishore in remand in the case.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) filed the case against 11 people on May 5, 2020, on charges of spreading anti-state falsehood to tarnish the image of Bangladesh and create confusion from a Facebook page.

The 11 accused in the case are Ahmed Kabir Kishore, Rashtrachinta coordinator Didarul Bhuiyan, Minhaj Mannan, Tasnim Khalil, Sahed Alam, Asif Mohiuddin, Zulkarnain Shayer Khan alias Sami, Ashik Imran, Swapan Wahid, Philip Shumakher and writer Mushtak Ahmed, who died in jail recently.

Earlier on January 13, police filed the charge-sheet against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, Rashtrachinta coordinator Didarul Bhuiyan and writer Mushtak Ahmed.

BDST: 1454 HRS, MAR 04, 2021
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