JP leader sued under Digital Security Act

A Jatiya Party (JP)-backed student leader yesterday filed a case against a JP leader under the Digital Security Act, 2018 allegedly for spreading false and objectionable information through Facebook about the party's secretary general.

Fazlul Haque, president of Sonargaon upazila unit of Jatiya Chhatra Samaj, the associated student body of JP, filed the case against Onanna Hossain Mousumi, general secretary of the central committee of Jatiya Mohila Party, the women's wing of JP.

Mousumi, through her Facebook post, has been spreading “false, objectionable, misleading and derogatory” information about party General Secretary ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, according to the case statement.

Such activities have hurt his dignity; besides, rivalry and hatred have been created among party men because of the Facebook post, and it may cause deterioration of the law and order situation, the statement said.

The plaintiff, Fazlul, is a follower of Liyakot Hossain Khoka, incumbent JP lawmaker of Narayanganj-3. Rivalry is going on between Khoka and Onanna as the latter wants to contest in this constituency and bought party's nomination form, said local JP leaders.

Contacted, Mousumi said the case was filed following the directive of Khoka as she has bought the nomination form.

Denying the allegation, plaintiff Fazlul said, “I have filed the case on my own initiative, not on anyone else's directive. Even Khoka does not know about this.”