DSA case over false info on DSCC Mayor, report deferred

Court decision

A Dhaka court today fixed June 6 for submission of probe report in a case filed under Digital Security Act (DSA) for posting and sharing false information based video about Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur of Dhaka passed the order as police failed to submit the report on Wednesday.

DSCC Mayor’s personal assistant (PA) Monirul Islam filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station on April 28 against two persons and three Facebook pages accused of broadcasting and sharing the video.

According to the case documents, the video was posted from a page named Bangladesh Times and was shared by a Facebook ID named Md Rakibur Rahman Fahim, and another Facebook ID named Tajuddin Ahmed Russel shared the video from another page named eyenewsbd.com. - Special Correspondent