A conspiracy to takeover MyTV led to the arrests of the channel's chairman, Nasir Uddin Sathi, and his son, Tawhid Afridi, President of Gono Odhikar Parishad Nurul Haque Nur has claimed.
"Just like the takeover of Janakantha, some individuals, through a well-planned conspiracy, have had MyTV chairman Nasir Uddin Sathi and his son Tawhid Afridi arrested. They demanded cash of Tk5 crore or shares, but no agreement was reached. Therefore, though digital and physical mobs, they pressured the authorities to arrest Afridi and his father," he wrote on a Facebook post.
Nur has recently come under the limelight after screenshots of a purported video call he had with Afridi went viral. Many have claimed that Nur had been protecting Afridi, although no concrete evidence of this has been produced.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Rashed Khan, general secretary of Gana Odhikar Parishad, described the murder case filed against Tauhid Afridi as a "false case."
"Tawhid Afridi has been arrested in a murder case filed with the Jatrabari police station. This is simply a false case. Why should he be arrested in a false case? If he has been involved in buttering someone, is there such a case against him or any corruption charges? He could have been arrested based on those," Rashed wrote in a Facebook post the same day.
Contacted, Rashed Khan told Stream, "A person should be punished in proportion to the offense they commit. But if someone is falsely implicated in a case and punished under it, they will not actually face justice."
He also added that this does not mean standing taking Afridi's side.
On Monday, a court placed content creator Tawhid Afridi on five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Asadul Haque Babu in the city's Jatrabari area during the July mass uprising.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order as police produced Afridi before the court, and investigation officer CID inspector Khan Md Erfan pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand.
A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on Sunday arrested Tawhid Afridi from Barishal.
The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zia Uddin on August 18 had placed Afridi's father Md Nasir Uddin Sathi, chairman of private TV Channel MyTV, on a five-day remand in the same case.
According to the case documents, Md Asadul Haque Babu, 24, joined the anti-discrimination student movement rally in Jatrabari paka rasta area on August 5, 2024. He got shot on his chest and leg at around 2.30pm and was rushed to the nearby hospital. Doctors at the hospital declared him dead.
Babu's father, Joynal Abedin, on August 30, 2024, filed the case with Jatrabari Police Station against 25 people, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
On 23 August, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petition of Mytv chairman Nasir Uddin and sent him to jail in the same case his son Tawhid Afridi was arrested.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rakibul Hasan passed the order.
Earlier, the investigation officer of the case, CID Police Inspector Khan Md Erfan, sought to keep Nasir in jail after his seven-day remand ended.
The defence lawyer had filed a bail petition, which was opposed by the state counsel.
Nasir was arrested on Sunday from Gulshan, Dhaka, and the court had granted a seven-day remand against him the following day.
Comments