Remarks at TV Talk Show
HC summons Prof Asif Nazrul
The High Court yesterday summoned Asif Nazrul, a professor at Dhaka University, for making a “provocative statement” about the prospective next government.
The professor was asked to appear in the HC on March 21.
Asif Nazrul allegedly commented at a live talk show on Bangla Vision on March 12 that if the prime minister and the opposition leader were asked who would come to the power next, they would perhaps reply that a third power would.
In response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in two weeks why it should not be directed to file a sedition case against Asif Nazrul for his comment.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim also ordered the Bangla Vision authorities to submit a copy of the talk show in a compact disk (CD) before it by March 21.
Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Md Nawsher Ali Mollah filed the writ petition with the HC against Prof Asif Nazrul yesterday.
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