Amar Desh acting editor gets bail in defamation case filed in Comilla

A Comilla court granted bail to Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman yesterday afternoon in a defamation case.

Advocate Ziaul Hasan Chowdhury Sohag, former vice president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Comilla town unit, filed the case on December 12, 2017 seeking approximately Tk 1,000 crore in damages for “making derogatory comments” on Bangabandhu and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

According to the case statement, Mahmudur, while speaking at a seminar at the Jatiya Press Club on December 1, 2017, insulted and lied about Bangabandhu's family and termed Bangladesh a “colony of India”.

Mahmudur also presented false information about the recent murder and abduction incidents and thereby created a bad image of Bangladesh before the world, it added.