A petition along with doctor's prescription on behalf of Shahriar Kabir, also an organiser of the Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee to Eliminate Collaborators of 1971), was submitted to the courts of two metropolitan magistrates to spare him from appearing before the courts in person in two separate sedition charges.

Prescriptions of the Orthopaedic Hospital where he was under treatment following a road accident in Nilphamari were submitted along with the petition to the courts.

After hearing metropolitan magistrates Abdur Rouf Khan and MA Salam rejected the petitions.

Shahriar Kabir was arrested under Section 54 on November 22, 2002 from the Zia International Airport along with video cassettes containing pictures of persecution on the minority community in Bangladesh, CDs, and cameras.

Later, a case was filed against him with the Airport Police Station on sedition charge.

He was also shown arrested on December 12 in a sedition case filed with the Motijheel Police Station against two foreign journalists. He was taken on remand several times in the case.

Later, the metropolitan magistrate conducted a judicial enquiry into the video and audiocassettes.