Nuzhatul Hasan, editor of Student Journal BD, an online news outlet, filed the case with Ramna Police Station on Tuesday after taking permission from the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka. The court granted the appeal of the journalist and asked the chief of the police station to submit a report related to the allegation by June 16. Shomi Kaiser was a guest in the inaugural ceremony of an e-commerce based tourism site ‘Bindu 365’ on Apr 24 at the National Press Club in Dhaka. Later, a young man was suspected to be responsible analysing the camera footage from different television channels but he could not be detained yet. In his case, Nuzhat alleged that Shomi Kaiser defamed the journalists by calling them ‘thieves’.

Source: bd News24 April 30, 2019 11:37 UTC