Cartoonist Kishore freed from jail
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, who was in prison for 10 months in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA), was released from Kashinpur Central Jail-2 on Thursday.
He went out of the jail around 12:25pm, the jail super Abdul Jalil confirmed.
The necessary documents reached the jail at 11am. And after scrutinising the papers, he was released, Abdul Jalil added.
His family members were waiting at the jail gate for him.
On Wednesday, the High Court granted six months’ bail to cartoonist Kishore in the DSA case.
Earlier on January 13, Ramna police filed a chargesheet against cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, ‘Rashtrachinta’ member Didarul Bhuiyan and writer Mushtaq Ahmed (died recently in jail) in the case.