Dhaka: The High Court on Tuesday summoned the Sakhipur upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and officer-in-charge (OC) of Sakhipur Police Station in Tangail to explain why the jail term sentenced by the UNO to a schoolboy for posting offensive comment about local lawmaker Anupam Shajahan Joy on facebook should not be declared illegal.

An HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das passed the suo moto order and asked them to appear before the court on September 27 to explain the matter following the publication of a news report in a national daily, reports UNB.

The HC also granted bail to convict Sabbir Shikder, 19, a student of Protima Bonki Public High School in the upazila, following a petition filed by his lawyer and asked him to appear before the court on that day.

Earlier, Supreme Court lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan drew attention of the HC bench submitting the report published at ‘The Daily Star’ headlined ‘Boy jailed for FB comment about MP’.

On September 17, a mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate Mohammad Rafiqul Islam of Sakhipur upazila in Tangail sentenced Sabbir Shikder to two years’ imprisonment on charge of uploading a message of threat to Anupam Shajahan Joy, MP of Tangail-8 (Basail-Sakhipur) constituency, on the social networking site Facebook messenger.

Police arrested Sabbir on September 16 following a general diary filed by the MP.

According to the GD, Sabbir, son of Shahinoor Alam of Protima Bonki village, wrote in his Facebook account pointing at the MP, ‘Your time is going to end.’

SC lawyer Khurshid Alam said the mobile court awarded two years’ imprisonment to the boy based on GD and without any investigation, which is not right.