Case against Shariatpur judge dismissed

A Dhaka court yesterday dismissed a criminal case filed against District and Sessions Judge of Shariatpur saying the complainant's allegation baseless, false and fabricated.
Mustaque Ahmed Mobaraki, editor and publisher of The Daily Bangabani, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on February 11 against Judge Shamsul Arefin on charges of making a series of forged documents in October last year.
After scrutinising the case dockets and other documents submitted by the complainant, Metropolitan Magistrate Kanika Biswas passed the dismissal order.
In her order, Kanika said no time of occurrence and no name of press have been mentioned in the complaint. Moreover, the charges brought against the opposite party are totally baseless and of no documents. So, the complaint was dismissed.
In his complaint, Mobaraki mentioned that his daily published a news item titled 'a business of Tk one crore in appointment of 57 employees in Shariatpur District Judge's Court' on August 26 last year. The daily also published another news item on September 25 the same year.
The defendant was angered at the news items and sent two people to the complainant for making an arrangement for publishing rejoinders to the point. But the daily did not publish the rejoinders.
The defendant himself then published an edition of The Daily Bangabani on October 6 last year and published the rejoinders in the edition, the complainant said.