Ekattor TV footage submitted

Private satellite television channel Ekattor TV on Sunday submitted the video recording on a report and talk show of conversation between two judges to the Supreme Court.

A two-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana fixed Tuesday for passing an order in this regard.

The video cassette was handed over to the court by Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on behalf of Ekattor TV.

On 10th August the television channel had aired a report and a talk show on the conversation between the two SC judges which sub judice matter during proceedings of a contempt of court rule against Janakantha editor and Publisher Atiquallah Khan Masud and Executive Editor Swadesh Roy.

On the following day, the attorney general told reporters the SC ordered the television channel to submit the video report to examine whether the channel committed any contempt of court by broadcasting the news and holding the talk show on a sub judice matter.

The SC on August 13 delivered a verdict on the contempt of court rule against Masud and Swadesh Roy where the duo was found guilty and sentenced to confinement in the court room the rising of the court and was also fined Tk10,000 each which was to be donated to two charitable organizations.

They were found guilty for committing contempt of court by publishing an article on July 18 over war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury’s family members.