Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has expressed its concern over the journo Ariful’s jail-term in Kurigram.

Expressing concern over the issue, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said, “There is specific rules to operate mobile courts in the country. The high court also has direction about it. The operation of a mobile court at midnight is illegal.”

He made the opinion while addressing press briefing on Saturday evening.

Earlier, journalist Ariful Islam was sent to jail soon after the mobile court, set up at the office of the Kurigram deputy commissioner, ended the trial proceedings on Saturday morning. The mobile court, set up in the dead of night, jailed the journalist for a year, after law enforcement led by magistrates picked him up from his house.