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Prothom Alo Editor gets anticipatory bail in DSA case

Court Correspondent:

The High Court on Sunday granted six weeks anticipatory bail to Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Ma-tiur Rahman in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Aminul Islam passed the order.
Senior Advocate Fida M Kamal stood for Matiur Rahman while additional attorney general Mehedi Ha-san and deputy attorney general Sujit Chatarjee Bappi represented the state.
Earlier in the day, a petition was submitted before the court seeking anticipatory bail for Matiur Rah-man.
The case was filed with Dhaka’s Ramna Police Station on March 29.
On March 29, an FIR was filed by a lawyer named Abdul Malek (Mashiur Malek), accusing Matiur Rahman, Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams, an unnamed “assistant cameraman”, and un-named others of “using print, online, and electronic media to tarnish the image and reputation of the state.”
In the FIR, the lawyer also mentioned that the accused were “purposefully spreading misinformation to deteriorate the law and order situation of the country.”
The case was filed under sections 25, 31 and 35 of the DSA.
The plaintiff said the news reported by Shamsuzzaman Shams went viral on social media which “tar-nished the image of the country and triggered criticism at home and abroad.”
Moreover, there was a possibility of deterioration in the law and order situation in the country over the matter, the case statement said.
Later, Shamsuzzaman Shams, the paper’s Savar correspondent, who wrote the report was sued in a sepa-rate case under the DSA on March 29, around 10 hours after being picked up from his house near Ja-hangirnagar University by members of the Criminal Investigation Department of police.

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