A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of a defamation petition against the chairman and three journalists of Ekushey Television.
Mohammad Abu Taher Bhuiyan, senior data entry control operator of the central bank’s Green Banking and CSR Section, filed the petition yesterday.
The accused are: ETV Chairman Abdus Salam, Chief News Editor Md Ibrahim Azad, Staff Reporter Faruk Hossain and Video Journalist Abdur Razzak.
Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Kumar Datta ordered the Tejgaon police station OC to look into the complaint and submit a report by January 8.
The petition termed as fake, baseless and fabricated - a series of reports by the ETV on November 22 and 23, which claimed that the central bank official had become an owner of New Tex Limited “through astonishing activities” and that he had withdrawn Tk24 crore from Janata Bank in the name of the company.
