A court here on Tuesday rejected a defamation case filed against the daily Amar Desh acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman and two others.
Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to the prime minister, filed the case against them on January 19, 2010 on charge of tarnishing the image of Elahi and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy through publishing a news item.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Hossain Raj gave the acquittal order as the plaintiff remained absent at the court for the seventh consecutive day.
Apart from the Amar Desh editor, publisher of the daily Alhaj Mohammad Hasmat Ali and reporter M Abdullah were made accused in the case.
In his complaint, Mr Elahi said the Amar Desh published a false news item linking him and Joy on December 17, 2009.
According to the report, Towfiq and Joy took a five-million-dollar bribe from American oil company Chevron promising them to award an oil exploration order.
Mahmudur Rahman is now in jail in over 40 cases including a sedition case filed for the leakage of Skype conversations between Justice Nizamul Haque, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) and international crimes law expert Ahmed Ziauddin.
Source: The Independent
Highly politicised, Executives-controlled ,obsolete, colonial imposed Bangla Judiciary, corrupt as it is cannot but obey the order of the executive . The judges have to save both their job and their neck. This corrupt,. inefficient, inexperienced government has turned the judiciary into a political tool to smash all opposition , even a small critic. This is the everyday experienced of the long suffering “JONOGON” (masses). What wonder, most people have no trust in Bangla judiciary.
DURING THE CIVIL WAR OF 1971 BNP LEADER SALAHUDDIN QADIR CHOUDHURY AS A STUDENT WAS STUDYING IN WEST PAKISTAN
There are more than 169 eminent persons, well educated, well respected in Pakistan who would testify that during the 1971’s civil war Salah Uddin Qader Choudhury, the BNP leader and a committed Muslim was in West Pakistan as a student. And as such during this period he could not have committed alleged rape, killing of Hindus while he was not in East Pakistan . Some of them were students studying at the same university as Mr Choudhury. But Awami-Communist-Ghadanic Kangaroo court was frightened to allow the foreign witnesses to testify in Mr Choudhury’s case though cunningly the politically motivated Kangaroo court has been named ” INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL” to dupe the people. American citizen was allowed to stand as witness in a Bengali court against Tariq Rahman, the BNP leader. What a contradiction!