FICTITIOUS REPORT ON MAKKAH CEREMONY
GD filed against Mahmudur Rahman
Police on Friday lodged a general diary (GD) against Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman for running a fictitious report on a traditional ceremony in Makkah.
Officer-in-charge Apurba Hassan of Tejgaon Police Station said, "Sub-inspector Rafiqul Islam of the Detective Branch lodged the GD on Thursday and the DB was investigating the complaints.”
On Thursday, police arrested Mahmudur at his Karwan Bazar office and put him on 13-day remand through a local court.
Anytime soon, the GD would be recorded as a case under the information and communication technology act.
Also to be sued in the case are reporter of the Bangla daily Abul Kalam Azad and its publisher Hasmat Ali.
Mahmudur was now being interrogated at the DB office on Minto Road in the capital.
He was remanded in custody in three cases. In one of those, he faces sedition charge for publishing Skype conversations between Justice Md Nizamul Huq, former chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-1, and Ahmed Ziauddin, an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
He was shown arrested in two other cases filed last month with Tejgaon Police Station for acts of violence and assaulting police during hartals, though his name was not included in the first information reports of the cases.
The newspaper on January 6 ran the report saying that the imam of the Holy Kaaba in a human chain bearing the Gilaf vouches for Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's good character. Sayedee has recently been sentenced to death for involvement in genocide and other crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The report included a picture of a traditional ceremony at the Holy Kaaba.
Changing the Gilaf (cover) of Holy Kaaba is a traditional ceremony in Makkah and, as in every year, it was held with due religious solemnity in October last.
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