Defamation
Judge dismisses case against Suranjit
A Dhaka court yesterday summarily dismissed a defamation case against minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta hours after it was filed against him on charge of making "derogatory" remark about lawyers and courts on September 16.
The judge passed the order saying that there was no sufficient ground to take the case into cognisance.
Advocate Sultan Mahmud, a lawyer of Dhaka District Judge's Court, yesterday filed the case against Suranjit with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.
Mahmud alleged that Suranjit, who was talking about the lawyers and courts at a programme titled 'Law and Human Rights' organised by South Asian Lawyers' Forum at Jatiya Press Club on September 16, said money makes everything possible. Suranjit also said majority people are now deprived of rule of law. The news was published the following day in a Bangla daily.
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