DSA case against Kajol transferred to Dhaka Cyber Tribunal
Journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
The case filed under Digital Security Act (DSA) against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol with Kamrangirchar Police Station was transferred to Dhaka Cyber Tribunal for trial today.
Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the order after scrutinising the case dockets and other relevant documents.
Kajol has been charged in the case for his alleged involvement with circulating indecent, defamatory, objectionable, and fake information about some ministers, lawmakers, and top Jubo Mahila League leaders on Facebook.
After around one year of the probe, Sub-inspector Mohammad Russell Mollah of Detective Branch of Police, the investigation officer of the case, on March 14 submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate s Court of Dhaka.
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A Dhaka tribunal will decide on March 24 whether to accept the charges pressed against photographer Shafiqul Islam Kajol who has been accused of circulating indecent, defamatory, objectionable and false information about several ministers, MPs and Jubo Mohila League leaders on Facebook.
After receiving the case dockets, Judge Mohammad Ash Sams Joglul Hossain of Dhaka Cyber Tribunal yesterday set the date, according to Shamim Al Mamun, bench assistant of the tribunal.
The judge asked Kajol to appear before the tribunal on March 24.
After a probe that took almost 10 months, Sub-inspector Mohammad Russell Mollah of the Detective Branch of police gave the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate s Court of Dhaka on January 27 in the case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA).