DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Wednesday (June 6) rejected the remand petition against popular singer Asif Akbar in a case filed under ICT Act and sent him to jail. 

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury passed the order after Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Police present Asif before court seeking five-day remand.

Meanwhile Asif’s lawyer Asaduzzaman and Faruk Mia filed a bail petition. The court also rejected the appeal and sent Asif to jail.

On early Wednesday (June 6), A team of CID arrested Popular singer Asif Akbar from his studio in Tejgaon FDC area in a ICT case. 

Lyricist-composer-singer Shafiq Tuhin, as a plaintiff, filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station on Monday (June 4), said police.

Asif was named the prime accused among some 4-5 unnamed persons accused in the case, CID Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Sharmin Jahan told Banglanews.   

Shafiq Tuhin said in the case statement that he, on June 1, came to know by an investigative report—Searchlight-- aired on Channel24 that Asif and his associates have sold 617 songs which are musical works of him and others lyricists and composers, without their permission. 

The list includes more than hundred songs penned by Shafiq, he said in the statement.

Afterwards, he came to know that Asif earned huge money by using the songs commercially in different digital means illegally and through fraudulence.   

BDST: 1505 HRS, JUNE 6, 2018
AP