BNP candidate sued under Digital Security Act

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Kushtia-4 constituency candidate Mehedi Ahmed Rumi. UNB File Photo
Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s Kushtia-4 constituency candidate Mehedi Ahmed Rumi. UNB File Photo

A case was filed with a Kushtia court on Tuesday against BNP candidate for Kushtia-4 constituency Mehedi Ahmed Rumi and a Tanti Dal leader under the Digital Security Act for their reported audio clip instigating violence ahead of the upcoming general elections.

A local leader of ruling Bangladesh Awami League and also public prosecutor of Kushtia Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal advocate Akram Hasan Dulal filed the case with Kusthia senior judicial magistrate court, reports UNB.

Judge M Masuduzzaman of the court took cognisance of the complaint and asked the Kumarkhali police station officer-in-charge to investigate it.

Dulal said in the leaked telephonic conversations between Rumi, also BNP chairperson's adviser and district BNP president, and local Tanti Dal leader Nur Islam, the former was heard instructing the latter to unleash violence.

The conversations were aired in television channels DBC News and Channel 71, he said.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader alleged that the case was filed out of vengeance to keep him away from the election race.