Former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krinsa Das. File Photo

DHAKA, Feb 4, 2025 (BSS) - The High Court (HC) today issued a rule, asking authorities concerned to explain within two weeks as to why it shall not allow former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari bail in a sedition case.

A High Court division bench of Justice Md Atoar Rahman and Justice Md Ali Reza passed the order after holding primary hearing on a plea filed by Chinmoy for granting him bail in the case.

Advocates Apurbo Kumar Bhattacharya and Prabir Ranjan Haldar moved the plea before the court, while Additional Attorney Generals Aneek Rushd Haque and Mohammad Arshadur Rouf stood for the state.

The case was filed against Chinmoy and 18 others on October 31, 2024, for disrespecting the national flag. He was arrested from the capital on November 25. Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court on November 26 sent Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari to jail, scrapping his bail plea.

Chinmoy's followers, armed with machetes and other local weapons attacked police and lawyers on the court premises on that day, barbarically hacking and killing advocate Saiful Islam Alif on the spot.