ATN Bangla chairman sued for defamation
Dhaka, June 27 (UNB) – A case was filed against beleaguered ATN Bangla chairman Mahfuzur Rahman on Wednesday for reportedly making disgraceful comments against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Jubo League Dhaka city unit leader Emdadul Haque lodged the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Farhana Ferdous at about 11am as Mahfuz’s remarks hurt and defamed him.
The court took cognisance of the case and set Thursday for passing the order in this regard as the plaintiff appealed to the court to issue a warrant for the arrest of the ATN Bangla chairman.
According to the case statement, Mahfuzur Rahman maligned the Prime Minister calling her ‘talkative’ in a programme during his recent visit to London. A private television channel aired the report on it on Monday.
The ATN Bangla chairman came up with the remarks in the same programme where he also claimed that journalist couple Sagar-Runi had been the victims of an "extramarital affair".
Earlier on Tuesday, Home Minister Shahara Khatun said the government would take action after investigation if the ATN Bangla chairman had made any ‘derogatory’ remark against the prime minister.
The journalist community burst into protests after his remarks about the Sagar-Runi murder aired on private TV channels in the first week of this month. Since then, the journalists have been demanding legal action against the ATN Bangla chief.
On Monday, the journalist leaders at a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the city branded the ATN Bangla chairman the ‘enemy of the media’.
He was also declared ‘persona non grata' for his derogatory remarks over the murder of journalist couple Sagar-Runi and stance against the journalist community.
The announcement was made after DUJ leader Jahangir Alam was assaulted by a group of ATN Bangla newsmen as he demanded the arrest of their chairman in connection with the killing of journalist couple Sagar-Runi during a human chain programme in front of the National Press Club on Sunday.
Sagar Sarwar, a news editor at private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter at another TV channel, ATN Bangla, were killed in the small hours of February 11 at their rented apartment in the capital’s West Rajabazar.
Jubo League Dhaka city unit leader Emdadul Haque lodged the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Farhana Ferdous at about 11am as Mahfuz’s remarks hurt and defamed him.
The court took cognisance of the case and set Thursday for passing the order in this regard as the plaintiff appealed to the court to issue a warrant for the arrest of the ATN Bangla chairman.
According to the case statement, Mahfuzur Rahman maligned the Prime Minister calling her ‘talkative’ in a programme during his recent visit to London. A private television channel aired the report on it on Monday.
The ATN Bangla chairman came up with the remarks in the same programme where he also claimed that journalist couple Sagar-Runi had been the victims of an "extramarital affair".
Earlier on Tuesday, Home Minister Shahara Khatun said the government would take action after investigation if the ATN Bangla chairman had made any ‘derogatory’ remark against the prime minister.
The journalist community burst into protests after his remarks about the Sagar-Runi murder aired on private TV channels in the first week of this month. Since then, the journalists have been demanding legal action against the ATN Bangla chief.
On Monday, the journalist leaders at a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the city branded the ATN Bangla chairman the ‘enemy of the media’.
He was also declared ‘persona non grata' for his derogatory remarks over the murder of journalist couple Sagar-Runi and stance against the journalist community.
The announcement was made after DUJ leader Jahangir Alam was assaulted by a group of ATN Bangla newsmen as he demanded the arrest of their chairman in connection with the killing of journalist couple Sagar-Runi during a human chain programme in front of the National Press Club on Sunday.
Sagar Sarwar, a news editor at private TV channel Maasranga, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter at another TV channel, ATN Bangla, were killed in the small hours of February 11 at their rented apartment in the capital’s West Rajabazar.
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