Time Digital News: Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) Chattogram Metro's Superintendent of Police Naima Sultana has filed a case against four people, including former superintendent of police Babul Akter and expatriate journalist and YouTuber Ilias Hossain.
Babul's brother Habibur Rahman Labu and his father Abdul Wadud Miah have also been made accused in the case filed under the Digital Security Act and penal code, reports our Chattogram correspondent, officer-in-charge (OC) of Khulshi Police Station.
He said they are investigating the case.
The case was filed at Khulshi Police Station on Monday (October 17, 2022).
Earlier on September 27, PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder filed a case against four people including Babul and Ilias Hossain.
In her complaint, Naima alleged, "In order to implement an unknown agenda, a 42:21 minutes long video was made with false statements and uploaded on YouTube."
"All these things published in the video are completely false, motivated. The false defamatory statement has been published to assassinate my character due to the proper investigation of SP Babul Akhter's case and to defame me in the police department and in public," she alleged.
"Through information, we came to know that accused who is in jail now, along with Ilias Hossain and other two accused in the case, are running this propaganda by opening accounts in various social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Internet TV, etc," the complainant alleged in the case.
Moreover, the videos published by the accused are being uploaded gradually by their associates on other social media at their direct and indirect instructions and if these defamatory videos are not stopped immediately and the accused are not arrested and put on trial, it will cause great harm to the complainant and the state, the case document said.
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