DSA Case by S Alam: Another Islami Bank official lands in jail
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A Dhaka court yesterday sent an Islami Bank official to jail on charges of plastering posters and making social media posts to defame the owners of Chattogram-based S Alam Group.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Mainul Islam passed the order after investigation officer Mofiz Uddin, also a sub-inspector of the Detective Branch of police, produced Jamal Uddin before the court, seeking confinement into the jail.
The DB on Thursday arrested Jamal in the capital's Motijheel area, said the police forwarding report submitted before the court.
With Jamal, the DB arrested 12 people, including three senior Islami Bank officials and two minors, in connection with the DSA case so far.
Abdul Kuddus, a deputy manager of S Alam group, filed the case with Gulshan Police Station on January 5 under the Digital Security Act.
In the case, Kuddus accused businessmen Mohammad Nur Un Nabi, Golam Sarowar Mia and Mazharul Islam Rasel and some unknown persons.
Police arrested Rasel on December 27 in another DSA case filed by an S Alam Group official with Double Mooring Police Station in Chattogram. Nabi and Mia were accused in this case too.
Kuddus said he found posters demeaning S Alam Group on walls and pillars behind Nafi Tower in Gulshan-1 and its adjacent areas on December 22, according to the case statement.
Founded in 1985 by Muhammad Saiful Alam Masud Chowdhury, S Alam Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh.
It has been in the news recently for its alleged borrowing of over Tk 30,000 crore from Islami Bank, where it has 26.73 percent stakes. The amount was way beyond the group's entitled quota, prompting the High Court to order an investigation.
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