DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday sent Ekushey Television (ETV) Limited chairman Abdus Salam to jail after he gave confessional statement in a sedition case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the order after recording the statement of Abdus Salam for three hours when he was produced before the court after a five-day remand.

Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police Wahiduzzaman appealed to the court to record the statement of ETV chairman.

On January 6, DB police arrested the ETV chairman from his Karwan Bazar office in city.

On January 8, Tejgaon Thana Sub-Inspector Borhanuddin filed a sedition case against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for derogatory remarks at a program in London on January 4 and Abdus Salam for airing Tarique’s speech live on Ekushey Television.

Police took the ETV chairman on a five-day remand from January 11.

The ETV chairman was also shown arrested in a case under pornography control Act filed by a woman named Kaniz Fatema on November 26, 2014.

The case was filed with Cantonment Thana in city after ETV broadcast an episode of ‘Ekusher Chokh’, an investigative program.

BDST: 1805 HRS, JAN 19, 2015

** ETV chairman confesses in sedition case