Prof Yunus faces court summons
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus faces summons to appear in a Mymensingh court on January 18.
Advocate Nazrul Islam Chunnu, joint secretary of Mymensingh unit Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), filed a defamation suit against Prof Yunus on January 21, 2007 for his remarks on politicians in an interview with international news agency AFP.
Yunus reportedly said the political leaders of this country do politics only to gain money and there is no ideology of these political leaders.
The suit referred to the interview with AFP at the head office of Grameen Bank on January 17, 2007.
It was also said in the suit that the news item regarding the interview was published in different newspapers the following day.
Court sources said being aggrieved by the remark of Prof Yunus, Chunnu filed the suit with the Cognizance Court No-1.
Judicial Magistrate Jagangir Hossain conducted a judicial inquiry into the case and submitted its report with the court in December this year.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Habibullah of the court issued the summons yesterday.
District unit President of Ganatantri Party Prof Atiqur Rahman, JSD Secretary Advocate Sadik Hossain, Secretary of Workers Party of Bangladesh Dr Sujit Barmon and Advocate Abdul Motalab Lal, among others, made their deposition before the judicial inquiry, according to the source.
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