Rony admits fault

Awami League MP Golam Maula Rony has owned up to assaulting two journalists, who had gone to take his interview.

A Dhaka court sent him to jail on Thursday in the assault case after denying him bail.

In a statement earlier in the day, Rony said, “It seems I am a victim of the situation. I take the full responsibility for my unrestrained behaviour.”

The ruling party MP also apologised to the media persons, hoping ‘this will end the complication’.

Two journalists, Imtiaz Momin Sony and cameraman Mohsin Mukul, of the privately-owned Independent TV, came under attack at Rony's Meherba Plaza office on Topkhana Road on Saturday. They were there to interview the MP for their investigative programme 'Talash'.

Rony had regretted the incident, but claimed that Independent TV co-owner Salman F Rahman put the 'Talash' team after him following his remarks on a share market scam.

Police had arrested him from capital Dhaka's Badda neighbourhood on Wednesday.

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