MR. Matiur Rahman,
editor and publisher of the daily Prothom Alo and director Media Star Ltd had filed a complaint to the effect that the daily Kaler Kantha by publishing an objectionable, false and concocted news on 10 May titled "Matiur Rahman tried to save the kingpin Tajuddin" in its first page as headline, has denigrated his personal and family reputation and status.
He complained that by publishing the news under that heading as the lead news on the first page in the daily Kaler Kantho the newspaper has defamed him as an individual, socially, mentally and also from the point of view of religion. He claimed that he is an eminent and well established person in the profession of journalism, and the defendant, without any provocation and rationale, and instigated by a particular quarter, by publishing false, bogus, baseless, outrageous, insulting and spurious news, has tried not only to harm the reputation, respect and impartial status of his and his newspaper the daily Prothom Alo but has also put him immensely in an adverse and unpleasant situation socially.
