Dhaka District Judge Shawkat Ali Chowdhury issued an interim injunction after a hearing on Monday. The court has also asked the defendant to explain within 15 days why a permanent ban on using the domain should not be issued. On Nov 23, lawyer Moksedul Islam, representative of Facebook filed a case against A-1 Software Limited and S K Shamsul Islam with the Dhaka District and Session Court. Shamsul applied for the domain facebook.com.bd and got it cleared by Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited the same year. The facebook.com.bd website was activated in December 2008, according to the BTCL website.

Source: bd News24 December 14, 2020 12:45 UTC