Another HC contempt rule against Mahmudur
The High Court yesterday issued another contempt of court rule against Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh, for publishing a malicious and false report on Sunday on Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik's UK residences.
On Sunday, the same HC bench had issued another contempt of court rule against Mahmudur over another report.
The court also made 19 leaders of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum and Legal Aid Committee's United Kingdom unit and the reporter concerned respondents to the rule.
The HC bench of Justice Manik and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain summoned the 21 respondents on July 18 while giving them two weeks to explain their role in this regard.
The report was headlined “Ainjibi Forum raises question on multiple houses of Justice Manik in Britain”.
It stated that the leaders, at a press conference in London on June 14, had said that three of four residences owned by Justice Manik were bought after he was appointed an HC judge.
During yesterday's proceedings, Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud, Advocate Shafiuddin and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal said Justice Manik was appointed an HC judge after he had bought the residences in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
Justice Manik said what he earned during his student and professional life in London was enough to purchase the residences.
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