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Defamation Case

HC rejects appeal of SQ Chy

26 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

The High Court (HC) yesterday rejected an appeal for staying the proceeding of a defamation case filed in Tangail against BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The same court, however, stayed for three months the proceedings against him in four other similar cases filed in Khulna, Norail, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh. The bench of Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif also issued a rule upon the government to explain within four weeks why the proceedings of these four cases against Salauddin should not be declared illegal. The orders came following a writ petition filed by Salauddin challenging the legality of proceeding with the cases. Advocate Abdur Rahim, senior vice-president of Tangail district Jubo League, filed the Tk 20 crore defamation suit on August 19 last year accusing Salauddin of making derogatory remarks about the National Mourning Day and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star that the defamation case against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will continue at the trial court in Tangail, following the HC order.