A lawyer yesterday filed a case against the editor and publisher of The Daily Star, Mahfuz Anam, and two others of the English daily for publishing a photograph of a poster of Hizb-ut Tahrir under the headline "Fanatics raise their ugly heads again" on February 11.

Shahjalal Kibria, a lawyer of Dhaka Judge's Court, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.

The other defendants are the daily's Chief News Editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and Chief Photographer SK Enamul Haq. 

After the hearing, the court ordered the officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station to probe the matter and submit a report to it. The order, however, did not mention any timeframe for submission of the report.