Defamation Suit
Mahmudur Rahman, three others indicted
A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against the acting editor, publisher, chief reporter and a reporter of the daily Amar Desh in a defamation case.
The accused are acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, publisher Alhaj Md Hasmat Ali, chief reporter Syed Abdal Ahmed and reporter Oliullah Noman.
The court fixed May 21 to start trail of the case.
On October 28, 2009, BTRC Deputy Director Tarek Hassan Siddiqui filed the defamation case against the accused with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka for running “defamatory reports and cartoon” in the newspaper on October 2, 3 and 8 of 2009.
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