Journo Kajol found at Benapole border, lands in Jashore jail

Journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, who was missing for 53 days before turning up at Sadipur border area at Benapole early Sunday, has been sent to jail in a case filed under section 54 of the Digital Security Act.
Jashore Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Md Manjurul Islam passed the order and sent him to jail in a case filed with Kotwali Police Station.
Earlier, Kajol secured bail in another case filed against him by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) with Benapole Police Station over 'illegal trespassing' into Bangladesh from India.
The journalist was also facing three more cases filed under Digital Security Act in Dhaka, said Kajol's lawyer Debashis Das's assistant junior Adv Sudipto Ghosh.
Sub-Inspector Santoshkumar Bishwas, in-charge of court prison, said Kajol was sent to Jashore Central Jail in the evening.Earlier, BGB men claimed to have found Kajol, editor of Dainik Pakkhakal, who was last seen coming out of his office at Hatirpool in the capital on March 10.
Raghunathpur BGB filed a case with Benapole Port Police Station against Kajol on charge of illegal trespassing into Bangladesh from India.
A day after Kajol's disappearance, Kajol's wife, Julia Ferdousi Nayan, filed a general diary on March 11 and demanded the authorities concerned ensure his safe return at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club on March 13.
On March 22, the Amnesty International urged the authorities to immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of the journalist and release him "if he is under state custody" without any further delay.
Kajol had previously worked as a photojournalist for Dainik Samakal and Banik Barta.
He was named in a case filed over a report on the people 'involved' in disgraced ruling party operative Shamima Noor Papiya's alleged escort services out of The Westin Dhaka.
In the digital security case filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police by Magura-1 MP Saifuzzaman Shikhor on March 9, Kajol was co-accused with Manab Zamin Editor Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, Manab Zamin reporter Al Amin and 29 other Facebook users who commented on or shared the report.
A security camera video released by Amnesty International on March 21 showed Kajol being followed before what appeared to be an enforced disappearance. In the video shared on Twitter, some unidentified men were also seen tampering with his motorcycle outside his office.
His wife, Julia Ferdousi Nayan, filed a general diary on March 11 and demanded the authorities concerned ensure his safe return at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club on March 13.