Bangladesh high court bans book on Mujibur
16 May 2012 1:49 AM GMT
Bangladesh's High Court on Tuesday banned the publication of a political novel by popular writer Humayun Ahmed for 'distortion of historical facts' about the assassination of the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members in the 1975 coup.
'The High Court ordered the ban on publication of the Deyal (Wall) by Humayun Ahmed until the information were corrected,' Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said.
He said the bench asked the secretaries or top bureaucrats of information and education secretaries to contact the writer to get the information corrected.
The court issued the suo moto rule as Alam brought to its attention parts of the yet to be published novel carried by a Bangla newspaper. Â
'This political novel is the first such literary intervention on the 15 August carnage but unfortunately the facts were dismissed,' Alam said.
'The High Court ordered the ban on publication of the Deyal (Wall) by Humayun Ahmed until the information were corrected,' Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said.
He said the bench asked the secretaries or top bureaucrats of information and education secretaries to contact the writer to get the information corrected.
The court issued the suo moto rule as Alam brought to its attention parts of the yet to be published novel carried by a Bangla newspaper. Â
'This political novel is the first such literary intervention on the 15 August carnage but unfortunately the facts were dismissed,' Alam said.
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