Published : 30 Jul 2013, 04:01 PM
Updated : 09 Aug 2022, 10:58 AM
In its final report it recommended that action be taken against the lawmaker for filing a false case.
The police requested that Salman F Rahman and the two journalists be released from the charges.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution and Information Department) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Anisur Rahman told bdnews24.com, Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan has signed the plea.
The magistrate has fixed Aug 21 for a hearing in this matter.
The case’s Investigating Officer SI Zafar said, the final report besides requesting the release of those accused from the charges have also recommended action against MP Golam Maula Rony for filing a false case.
The MP had lodged a complaint on his official letterhead with the Shahbagh police on Jul 20, accusing Independent TV co-owner Salman F Rahman and others of extortion, blackmailing, attempt-to-murder, and abduction.
His complaint was followed by a case filed by Independent TV management which accused Rony of assaulting Imtiaz Momin Sony and cameraman Mohsin Mukul, of Independent’s crime investigative program ‘Talash’, at his Topkhana office where they went to interview him.
Rony had surrendered before the court and secured bail on July 21 in the assault case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan after hearing a plea by the plaintiff of the case against Rony issued a warrant for his arrest scrapping his bail on Jul 24.
The case’s plaintiff Independent TV Assistant Manager Yunus Ali had filed a general diary with the police alleging that he received phone threats from Rony.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the MP on that very day from capital’s Badda.
