Desk Report
Publish: 18 Aug 2021, 06:27 pm
(From Left) Bashundhara group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir (Photo: Collected)
In a defamation case
worth Tk 500 crore, Bashundhara group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, managing
director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, and nine others were sued for publishing
confusing, false, and defamatory reports about Whip and member of parliament
Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury and his son Nazmul Karim Chowdhury Sharun in East West
Media Group's media outlets.
Whip Shamsul Hoque
Chowdhury filed the case with the joint district judge court in Patiya on
Wednesday.
The other respondents
of the case are — Bangladesh Pratidin editor Naem Nizam, Kalerkantho editor
Emdadul Hoque Milon, Bangladesh Pratidin’s reporter Saidur Rahman Rimon,
Chattogram Bureau chief Reaz Hyder Chowdhury, reporter Mohammad Selim,
Kalerkantho reporter SM Rana, News24 editor, Banglanews24.com editor and Daily
Sun editor Enamul Hoque Chowdhury, according to the case statement
Lawyer Dipak Kumar Shil
told media that the court accepted the case and issued summons to the
respondents to be present before the court on September 23, 2021.
Quoting the case
statement, the lawyer said that the media outlets owned by East West Media
Group carried confusing, false and defamatory reports against whip and member
of the parliament Shamsul Hoque Chowdhury and his son Nazmul Karim Chowdhury
Sharun.
The plaintiff claimed
that the reports were false, fabricated, and baseless which defamed him and his
family. He sought Tk 500 crore as compensation, the lawyer said.
Plaintiff Shamsul Hoque
Chowdhury told the media, ‘We had no enmity with the journalists employed with
Bashundhara group's media outlets. But they carried false, fabricated and
baseless reports against me and my family members in the last two years on
instructions given by Bashundhara group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and
managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir.
‘There is a conflict
between my son Sharun and Sayem Sobhan Anvir over a family and personal issue.
Sayem Sobhan Anvir took the opportunity and continuously defamed us. I served
legal notice to Sayem and others, but they didn't stop. Now I have been forced to file a case,’ he
said.
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