Defamation case: Trial proceedings against Fakhrul scrapped

The High Court today stayed the trial proceedings of a defamation case filed against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in 2014.

The court also issued a rule asking the government to explain why the proceedings of the case against Mirza Fakhrul should not be scrapped.

The bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah came up with the order and rule after hearing a petition filed by the BNP secretary general for scrapping the trial proceedings of the case against him.

On September 1, 2014, Nur-e-Alam Siddique, vice-president of Awami Matsyajibi League, filed the case with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

In the case, he alleged that Fakhrul on August 24, 2014 at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan headquarters termed the ruling AL as a “killer party” and its chief a “killer”, Fakhrul’s lawyer Advocate Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star.

On July 9 this year, a Dhaka court framed charges against Fakhrul in the defamation case.