Case filed against 5 including Taposh, Munni

A case has been filed against five people including its Managing Director Kaushik Hossain Taposh and Chairperson Farzana Munni for the alleged illegal takeover of 'Gaan Bangla'.

A man named Syed Shams Uddin Ahmed filed the case with the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah on November 25.

The court accepted the petition and instructed the chief of Gulshan Thana  to register it as an official case.

The other accused include Rabi Shankar Maitree, M Amanullah Khan (Chanchal Khan), Syed Nabil Ashraf, and four unidentified individuals.

According to the case documents, Shams Uddin Ahmed, along with Md Badruddoza Sagar, Bakhtiar Shikdar, and Rabi Shankar Maitree, had registered a company named Birds Eye Mass Media and Communication PLC on July 25, 2011, with the aim of opening a private satellite television channel.

The petitioner held 7,000 shares, while the others held 1,000 shares each, making up a total of 10,000 shares with a primary capital of Tk one crore.

On Dec 22, 2011, Shams Uddin Ahmed visited Amanullah Khan's home at the request of Amanullah and Rabi Shankar. Around 8pm, Taposh, Farzana Munni, Nabil Ashraf, and several unidentified individuals arrived and demanded that Shams Uddin and Badruddoza Sagar sign documents, threatening them with firearms. Fearing for their lives, Shams Uddin and Sagar signed the documents.

They also threatened to file cases against them or even kill them if they reported the incident or revealed any details. 

Kaushik Hossain Taposh was arrested from Uttara in the capital on November 4. He was shown arrested in a case of attempted murder of a businessman named Ishtiaq Mahmud during the anti-discrimination student movement, and put  on remand. He is currently in jail.