SC adjourns hearing till Aug 9
The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till August 9 the hearing on contempt rule against The Daily Janakantha editor and its executive editor.
The SC passed the order after rejecting a three-month time plea moved by the defendants for answering the rule.
Atiqullah Khan Masud, editor and publisher of the newspaper, and Swadesh Roy appeared before the court yesterday morning following an order passed on July 29.
In the time petition, they said they would contest the rule and that they needed three months' time for preparing the answer.
Besides, the four-member bench headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha also issued show cause notice to M Soyeb Khan, an assistant attorney general, for appearing on behalf of the Janakantha journalists.
In the show cause notice, the SC asked Soyeb Khan to explain in 48 hours why his certificate as advocate on record should not cancelled.
The contempt rule was pronounced on July 29 over an article published in the daily on July 16 involving the family of condemned war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told the court that as an assistant attorney general, Soyeb Khan cannot appear as an advocate on record in a contempt of court case.
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