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Published : 11 Apr 2016, 06:12 PM
The cases were filed in different courts across Bangladesh over the newspaper running DGFI-fed unverified corruption stories against Sheikh Hasina during the 2007-08 caretaker regime.
On Mar 27, Anam filed a petition with the High Court challenging the legality of the cases.
The bench of justices Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and AKM Shahidul Huq stayed the cases on Monday and issued a rule on the matter.
On Apr 3, the English daily’s editor secured a four-week anticipatory bail in 66 defamation cases.
Top Bangladesh politicians, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP chief Khaleda Zia, were arrested during the 2007-08 emergency regime on corruption charges.
Anam is accused of trying to undermine the democratic system by helping the military-backed caretaker in its attempt to banish Hasina, her archrival Khaleda Zia and other leaders from politics.
A total 83 cases— over defamation and sedition—were filed against him after he admitted in a TV talk-show on Feb 3, that he had run unsubstantiated reports fed by the military’s spy agency, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI).
One of those cases, filed in a Sylhet court, was scrapped. Out of the remaining 82, Anam filed a petition challenging the legality of 72 cases.
