Dhaka – A Tk 500 crore defamation case was filed here against Comilla Awami League MP Subid Ali Bhuiyan on Monday for
calling Ziaur Rahman Bangladesh’s first president.Jilani Sarker, an activist of Jubo League, hailing from Daudkandi in Comilla district and a resident of Jatrabari in Dhaka, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Satya Broto Shikder in the morning,UNB News Agency Reported.
The court asked the officer-in-charge of Sher-e-Banglanagar Police Station to submit a report on it on October 13 after investigation.
According to the case statement, Subid Ali called BNP founder Ziaur Rahman the first president of the country at a meeting of the
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Institutions on August 17.Citing reports published in different newspapers on August 18, the plaintiff said he was shocked at such remark which also hurt the belief of the entire Bangali nation causing a ‘loss of Tk 500 crore’.
