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