Dhaka, Aug. 22 -- A judicial probe report said lawyer Palash Kumar Roy who was found burnt in Panchagarh Jail on April 26 committed suicide by setting himself on fire. Besides, the report pointed out some cases of mismanagement and irregularities in the jail.

Hearing the report on Wednesday, a High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif and Justice Md Badrujjaman ordered copies be sent to the Home Secretary and Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, for them to submit their own explanations by October 15, the date fixed for the next hearing in the case.

However, Palash Kumar Roy, 36, a Bangladesh Bar Council-listed lawyer and son of Pranab Kumar Roy of Borosingia village in Atoari upazila, sustained burn injuries in a toilet of the Panch...