Abdul Latif Morol, who works with regional Bengali-language daily, was arrested and detained after a journalist from a rival newspaper filed a case under a draconian internet law.
“The complainant said Morol has defamed the state (junior) minister for fisheries and livestock, Narayan Chandra Chanda, after he made a derogatory post about him in Facebook,” local police chief Sukumar Biswas told AFP.
Chanda was said to have attended an event organized by the government’s local livestock department, a part of his ministry, at Dumuria on Saturday. An event which saw goats, chickens and ducks, being donated to poor farmers, but one of the donated goats later died. The death of the goat is said to have prompted Morol to write on Facebook “Goat given by state minister in the morning dies in the evening,” Biswas said.
The complainant claimed that Morol's statement was aimed at “undermining” the minister “socially and personally” as he should have blamed the local livestock officials and not the minister.
In an interview with a local paper, the plaintiff said he filed the complaint because he was a supporter of the nationally ruling Awami League. “We did not like the matter (the Facebook post).”
AFP
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