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Arrest warrant against 2 editors for running story on Pintu

COURT CORRESPONDENT
A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrant against editors of two Bangla national dailies minutes into a ruling BNP lawmaker filed two separate defamation cases against the newspapers for publishing reports that linked him and his family members with the Jubo Dal leader Sagir Ahmed killing.
Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, lawmaker from Dhaka-8 constituency,
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filed the cases against five persons including the editors and publishers of Prothom Alo and Janakantha.
Besides issuing bailable warrant of arrest against Prothom Alo Editor Motiur Rahman and Janakantha Editor and Publisher Mohammad Atiq Ullah Khan Masud, Metropolitan Magistrate AJM Abdullahel Baki issued summons upon Prothom Alo Publisher Mahfuz Anam and Janakantha Advisory Editor Toab Khan and Executive Editor Borhan Ahmed.
Accompanied by a few hundred of his supporters, Pintu went to the courthouse in a procession and filed a case against the editor and publisher of Prothom Alo and another against the rest three.
Although there is prohibition imposed by the High Court on processions and rallies on the court premises, they entered the court area in procession, halting court proceedings for about an hour.
Pintu protested a part of a report on placing wreaths on the body of Sagir published in Prothom Alo on June 26 that said the Jubo Dal leader lobbied with the Dhaka City Corporation mayor for getting the renovation works of the Ahsan Manjil and locked in conflict with Pintu over this. "In fact, the renovation work is an under-implementation project of PWD [Department of Public Works], not of Dhaka City Corporation. So, the information of lobbying and conflict with Pintu is false, imaginary and motivated," the complaint said.
Pintu also protested another Prothom Alo news of June 28 that said the detectives were suspecting Pintu's involvement in Sagir murder.
Innumerable false and imaginary information of the report, including "he [Pintu] succeeded to drop the name of his brother from the complaint of Shakil and Sentu murder by applying his influence" and "Sagir was angered and hurled abusive words at Pintu recently after Pintu got construction work of the Tk 2 crore reform work for Ahsan Manjil and another Tk 5 crore work of the Health Directorate" tainted the reputation and tarnished the image of Pintu, said the complaint.
Pintu said the judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 acquitted the complainant's brother in his judgement of the Shakil and Sentu killings as the charge was not proved against him.
Protesting another Prothom Alo report of June 29 that said a meeting was held to settle the conflict between Sagir and Pintu's brother, the complainant said Sagir had never had any conflict with Pintu's brother Monir who has been suffering from brain tumour for several years.
The BNP lawmaker protested another Prothom Alo report of June 30 that said killers of Sagir had been ordered to leave the country and five including two of Pintu's brothers have been identified as Sagir's killers. He also protested part of the report that said the suspected killers had gone into hiding under the shelter of the influential lawmaker and said he or his family members had never fostered any relation with Sagir's killers.
"The accused have published such derogatory reports in the Prothom Alo for political gain by hiding the real killers," said the complaint.
The other case filed against the Janakantha editors and publisher said that a June 25 Janakantha report on Sagir murder hinted at Pintu.
On a Janakantha report on the following day that said Sagir locked in conflict with Pintu over the Tk 2 crore renovation work of Ahsan Manjil, Pintu said the work was of Tk 47 lakh and Sagir never applied to get the work.
Pintu protested a June 27 report of Janakantha that said the killers were close to Pintu's brother Monir. He also protested a June 28 Janakantha news which said Monir had a conflict with Sagir and a meeting was convened to settle the conflict.
The lawmaker also termed part of
another Jankantha news on the following day false and imaginary that said Pintu held a meeting on police guard where suspected killers of Sagir attended.
He said the reports were published to vilify him socially and politically.
Some other newspapers carried similar reports on Sagir murder and Pintu and his family members' link to it for several days.