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Agartala, Aug 18, 2011 : Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury today appeared in the court of West Tripura district Civil Judge, Pankaj Kumar Datta to record his statement as petitioner for two defamation suits against Opposition leader and editors of two local dailies on ‘Online Lottery scam’.
Giving details of two ‘defamation suits’ filed by Finance Minister, Public prosecutor Lutfur Rahman Khadim said the suits were filed against news items published by the two local dailies quoting a press conference called by Opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath on last May 26, 2005, relating to ‘Online lottery scam’.
‘During the press meet, Opposition leader Nath submitted false allegation relating to online lottery scam, which was far away from the truth and maligned the Finance Minister ’, said Lutfur Rahman Khadim.
He said, Chowdhury had filed defamation suits against opposition leader and editor cum owner of Syandan Patrika, Subal Kumar Dey.
In another petition, Chowdhury filed suit against opposition leader, News editor of Dainik Sambad and its executive editor Paramita Livingstone.
Giving details of the suits, Khadim said, both the Bengali news papers published news items on May 27, 2005 with false allegation against Finance Minister.
On May 28, 2005, ‘Dainik Sambad’ also published another editorial in an ugly manner to defame the Finance Minister, said Khadim.
He added that Finance Minister, in anyway was not connected with the alleged ‘online lottery scam’ in Tripura. So he personally appeared in the court to seek justice.
During the period of last two years, the accused persons did not appear in the court and filed petitions for extension of time for the personal appearances.
On Thursday, Justice Pankaj Kumar Datta order the defendants to pay Rs 4000 each to the witnesses as ‘witness cost’ and issued another order for the personal appearance of the accused personnel in the court on next August 24, said Khadim.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister claimed Rs 3 crore each as compensation from the two sets of defendants.
Along with Lutfur Rahman Khadim, advocates Debabrata Chakraborty, Sudhendu Chakraborty, Nirmal Chandra Paul and others acted as ‘public prosecutors’ of the cases.
Advocate Arun Chandra Bhowmik, Debaranjan Chowdhury and Dipak Deb are fighting the suits for the defendants.
Agartala, Aug 18, 2011 : Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury today appeared in the court of West Tripura district Civil Judge, Pankaj Kumar Datta to record his statement as petitioner for two defamation suits against Opposition leader and editors of two local dailies on ‘Online Lottery scam’.
Giving details of two ‘defamation suits’ filed by Finance Minister, Public prosecutor Lutfur Rahman Khadim said the suits were filed against news items published by the two local dailies quoting a press conference called by Opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath on last May 26, 2005, relating to ‘Online lottery scam’.
‘During the press meet, Opposition leader Nath submitted false allegation relating to online lottery scam, which was far away from the truth and maligned the Finance Minister ’, said Lutfur Rahman Khadim.
He said, Chowdhury had filed defamation suits against opposition leader and editor cum owner of Syandan Patrika, Subal Kumar Dey.
In another petition, Chowdhury filed suit against opposition leader, News editor of Dainik Sambad and its executive editor Paramita Livingstone.
Giving details of the suits, Khadim said, both the Bengali news papers published news items on May 27, 2005 with false allegation against Finance Minister.
On May 28, 2005, ‘Dainik Sambad’ also published another editorial in an ugly manner to defame the Finance Minister, said Khadim.
He added that Finance Minister, in anyway was not connected with the alleged ‘online lottery scam’ in Tripura. So he personally appeared in the court to seek justice.
During the period of last two years, the accused persons did not appear in the court and filed petitions for extension of time for the personal appearances.
On Thursday, Justice Pankaj Kumar Datta order the defendants to pay Rs 4000 each to the witnesses as ‘witness cost’ and issued another order for the personal appearance of the accused personnel in the court on next August 24, said Khadim.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister claimed Rs 3 crore each as compensation from the two sets of defendants.
Along with Lutfur Rahman Khadim, advocates Debabrata Chakraborty, Sudhendu Chakraborty, Nirmal Chandra Paul and others acted as ‘public prosecutors’ of the cases.
Advocate Arun Chandra Bhowmik, Debaranjan Chowdhury and Dipak Deb are fighting the suits for the defendants.
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