TV presenter Farzana Brownia sues Shykh Seraj, 4 others over alleged fraud, extortion

Tv presenter Farzana Brownia on Wednesday (25 September) filed a case accusing five of us at the side of the pinnacle of experiences at Channel i, Shykh Seraj, on designate of fraud and extortion.

The case became once filed on the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Hasibul Haque.

In step with court records, the magistrate popular Brownia’s assertion and instantaneous the Prison Investigation Department (CID) to study the allegation.

The court space 12 November because the decrease-off date for CID to put up its story.

The four other accused are Zahir Uddin Mahmud Mamun, Mukit Majumdar Babu, Abdur Rashid Majumdar Parvez, and Riaz Ahmed Khan.

Farzana Brownia’s criticism additionally alleges that all five of us are eager in the Awami League’s politics.

In step with the case assertion, Brownia had been employed because the Advertising and marketing Manager at Channel i, with a month-to-month wage of Tk1 lakh. She additionally served because the presenter and director of the demonstrate “Swarnakishori” (Golden Childhood).

The dispute arose in 2018 during the quota reform circulate, when she publicly supported college students eager in the protests.

On 11 October 2018, she became once all right this moment banned from the tv channel without formal peek. When she verbally protested, the accused instantaneous her that she would continue receiving her wage till she became once formally pushed apart in writing.

Per this notion, Brownia claims she is owed Tk79 lakh in unpaid wages, conserving the interval from October 2018 to September 2024.

No matter sending an real peek by her lawyer, the accused did not acknowledge and in its build allegedly threatened her, disturbing Tk50 crore as extortion.