A Dhaka court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced four people to one-year jail each in a defamation case filed by former lawmaker and Mohila Awami League leader Asma Jerin Jhumu.
The four convicts are-- Sahid Bhashani, Md Asaduzzaman, Nasir Bhashani and Shukur Bhashani.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan pronounced the judgement in presence of the convicts and sent them to jail with conviction warrant.
Jhumu, a former lawmaker from reserved seat, filed the case against them on March 1, 2022, for hanging offensive banner in front of Office of the Waqf Administrator in New Eskaton Road on February 15, 2022.
The court on November 30, 2022, framed charges against the four and came up today with the judgment after examining three of the five witnesses.
