Two journos sued for posting man's anti-liberation role to Facebook
Liyakot Ali Badal, a Rangpur-based journalist, on August 27 filed a defamation case against two other journalists for posting on their Facebook walls a document that disclosed Badal's alleged role against the Liberation War in 1971.
Badal, Rangpur correspondent of Ekushey Television, bdnews24.com and the daily Sangbad, lodged the case with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in the district against Parimal Mazumder, former bureau chief of a national daily, and Niranjan Chakrobotty, staff reporter of an online news portal of Rangpur.
The court summoned Parimal Mazumder and Niranjan Chakrobotty to appear before it on November 27.
In 2011 late Mukul Mostafizur Rahman, a veteran freedom fighter of Rangpur, published a book titled “Muktijuddhe Rangpur” where he said Liyakot Ali Badal (serial number 166 and 'body number' 625) joined the East Pakistan Civil Armed Forces (EPCAF) on July 16 in 1971.
The members of EPCAF, comprising mostly non-Bangalees, were engaged in killing the Bangalees under the supervision of the Pakistani army during the Liberation War.
Parimal and Niranjan said they just pasted the list, taken from the book, on their Facebook walls.
They termed the case by Badal 'a threat from the anti-liberation forces' when the trial of the war criminals is going on.
It is well known to all of Rangpur that Liyakot Ali Badal is a listed war criminal, they said, adding that when “Muktijuddhe Rangpur” was published, Badal did not take any legal steps against the writer of the book.
Contacted, Liyakot Ali Badal declined to make any comment about the matter.
“I told the court everything,” he said.
Earlier on August 18, Rangpur district unit of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal published a list of war criminals, including Liyakot Ali Badal.
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