The Daily Inqilab Editor AMM Bahauddin and another person were sued in a defamation case.

Presidium member of ruling Awami League and former shipping minister Shahjahan Khan filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sayeed on Sunday.

The other accused is Abdul Quader, director of Quaderia Publications and Products Limited.

The case was filed under the sections 109/501/502/34 of the Penal Code.

In the complaint, Shahjahan Khan said, on July 26, immigration officers at Shahjalal International Airport barred his daughter Oaishe Khan from boarding a London-bound flight after she showed a Covid-19 negative report but the result found positive in online checking.

The next day in a press conference, National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Centre Director Prof Dr Abul Khayer Mohammad Shamsuzzaman said Oaishe Khan was mistakenly given the negative report. 

Despite Abul Khayer’s admission of the mistake, AMM Bahauddin on July 28 published a report in his newspaper regarding his daughter Oaishe Khan's Covid-19 report.

Shahjahan Khan alleged that the report had defamed him and his daughter.

BDST: 1910 HRS, AUG 16, 2020
AP