Own Correspondent: The Tribunal has ordered a fine of Tk 5 lakh for dismissed Police Inspector (Inspector) Mahmud Saiful Karim alias Saif Amin in the case of the Digital Security Act filed by Jatiya Sangsad Whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury. He will have to serve 18 months in prison in default of payment of the fine.
On Monday (March 27), Dhaka’s cyber tribunal judge, AM Zulfikar Hayat, announced the verdict in the presence of the accused. However, the judge mentioned in the judgment that if the fine is deposited, the accused will not have to serve jail time.
As the complaint under Section 25(2) of the Digital Security Act was proved, the court ordered Mahmud Saiful Karim to pay a fine of two lakh rupees. He will have to serve nine months of imprisonment for failing to pay the fine. In addition, under Section 29 (2) of the same law, he will be fined three lakh taka, in default of which he will have to serve nine months of imprisonment. The judge mentioned in the judgment that the sentences of the two sections would run separately.
Whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury’s lawyer, Mohammad Haider Tanviruzzaman, told reporters about this.
On September 25, 2019, Jatiya Sangsad Whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury filed a case against Mahmud Saiful Karim for giving him status by claiming that he earned 180 crores of rupees from gambling games in five years through social media.
It is said in the case that the plaintiff’s name has not been mentioned in the ongoing anti-casino campaign. Therefore, the allegations made against the plaintiff are completely false and baseless. By publishing, the plaintiff has suffered socially and politically.
On February 10, 2020, police inspector Nazmul Nishat of the social media monitoring team of the CTTC submitted the report of the case.
