Court Correspondent :
Jilani Sarker, a Jubo League activist on Monday filed a Tk 500 crore defamation case
against Comilla Awami League MP Shubid Ali Bhuiyan for calling Ziaur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh.
The plaintiff who hails from Daudkandi of Comilla district and a resident of Jatrabari in Dhaka, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka in the morning.
Magistrate Satya Broto Sikder of the court asked the Officer-in-Charge of Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station to submit a report about the incident on October 13 after investigation.
According to the case docket, Shubid Ali called BNP founder Ziaur Rahman the first president of the country at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Institutions on August 17.
Citing reports published in different newspapers on August 18, the plaintiff said he was shocked at the remark that also hurt the belief of the entire Bengali nation causing a ‘loss of Tk 500 crore’.
Jilani Sarker, a Jubo League activist on Monday filed a Tk 500 crore defamation case
against Comilla Awami League MP Shubid Ali Bhuiyan for calling Ziaur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh.
The plaintiff who hails from Daudkandi of Comilla district and a resident of Jatrabari in Dhaka, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka in the morning.
Magistrate Satya Broto Sikder of the court asked the Officer-in-Charge of Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station to submit a report about the incident on October 13 after investigation.
According to the case docket, Shubid Ali called BNP founder Ziaur Rahman the first president of the country at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Institutions on August 17.
Citing reports published in different newspapers on August 18, the plaintiff said he was shocked at the remark that also hurt the belief of the entire Bengali nation causing a ‘loss of Tk 500 crore’.
