A Dhaka court on Thursday asked Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and other defendants to submit a written statement by April 22 this year in connection with a civil defamation suit filed against them seeking Tk 200 crore in damages.
Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan has filed a Tk 1000 crore defamation suit against Prothom Alo for two reports published on Oct 12 and 13 last year.
The prime minister's energy adviser Tawfik-e-Elahi Chowdhury filed a defamation suit at a Dhaka court on Tuesday against Bangla-language daily Amar Desh for publishing a report accusing him of taking bribes from a US oil company to help it secure a contract in Bangladesh.
Law minister Shafique Ahmed on Monday tabled an amendment bill in parliament aimed at curtailing court's power to order arrests of journalists for "defamatory" news. The new bill will amend Schedule 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code-1898 by replacing the "warrant" with "summons".
A Tk 15 crore defamation case was filed against the editor of the daily Amar Desh and two others in Khagrachhari on Wednesday for publishing 'false report' about prime minister's energy adviser Towfiq-e-Elahi and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
A Tk 20-crore defamation suit was filed against Janakantha editors for publishing a 'libelous' article in the Bengali newspaper about opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s elder son Tarique Rahman and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.
A $10,000 crore defamation suit was filed on Sunday against the daily Amar Desh editor and three others for publishing 'false report' about prime minister's Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
Opposition BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has secured anticipatory bail from the High Court in a defamation suit. The vacation bench of justices A F M Abdur Rahman and Mohammed Rezaul Hassan made the order on Thursday after the BNP leader filed an petition for anticipatory bail to avoid arrest in the case.
A Dhaka court has extended the deadline for former army chief g to submit a written rejoinder to a Tk 100 crore defamation suit against him to October 1, after he failed to meet Sunday’s deadline.
Former army chief Moeen U Ahmed today filed a petition with a Dhaka court for rejecting the plaint of a defamation case filed against him by former BNP state minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku. Moeen's counsel Advocate Humayun Kabir filed the petition with the Third Joint District Judges Court, Dhaka.
