Police have pressed charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, writer Mushtaq Ahmed and Rashtrochinta activist Didarul Islam Bhuiyan in two cases filed last year under the Digital Security Act.

Sub-Inspector Mohammad Russell Mollah of Detective Branch of police, also the investigation officer of a case filed against photojournalist Kajol, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on Sunday.

The detectives pressed charges in the case filed with Hazaribagh Police Station over Kajol's Facebook post regarding the arrest of Jubo Mahila League leader Shamima Nur Papia.

However, investigators are yet to submit the probe reports in two other cases filed against Kajol with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar and Kamrangir Char police stations. All three cases were recorded under the DSA.

In the charge sheet, the IO said the charges brought against Kajol were primarily proved and he should be brought under trial.

The three cases were filed against Kajol between March 10-11 last year over a Facebook post he had shared regarding the arrest of Papia. He landed in jail on May 3 and was freed on bail in December.

Meanwhile, the charge sheet in the case against Kishore, Mushtaq and Didarul was submitted to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on February 4. Sub-Inspector Mahasin of Ramna Police Station said he submitted the charge sheet.

The three were prosecuted in the case filed on May 6 last year by Rab-3 under the DSA with Ramna Police Station. The Rab unit's Assistant Director Abu Bakar Siddique had filed the case and a total of 11 people were prosecuted in the case.

Charges were pressed against Kishore, Mushtaq and Didarul over running propaganda against the government and the state. The names of the eight others were not included in the charge sheet due to a lack of evidence against them, said court sources.

These eight are: Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil who runs Netra News, US-based journalist Shahed Alam, Germany-based blogger Asif Mohiuddin, Minhaj Mannan Emon, managing director of BLE securities and shareholder-director of Dhaka Stock Exchange, expatriate Zulkarnain Saer Khan, Ashik Imran, Shapan Wahed and Philip Schuhmacher.

The 11 were prosecuted under sections 21, 25(1) (b), 31 and 35 of the DSA, which deals with anyone running propaganda or campaign, "against the Liberation War of Bangladesh, the cognition of the Liberation War, Father of the Nation, National Anthem or National Flag", anyone "tarnishing the image of the nation or spread confusions" or attempting to "create hostility, hatred or adversity among people or destroy communal harmony or create unrest or disorder or deteriorates or threatens to deteriorate law and order".

Kishore and Mushtaque have been behind bars for nine months, while Minhaj and Didarul were granted bail by court in September last year.

Kishore and Mushtaq's bail petitions were rejected six times, said their lawyers.