Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday aforementioned no innocent journalist would be harried underneath Section fifty seven of ICT Act even somebody was reserved underneath the law.
"Filing of cases (under the Section 57) isn't the ultimate factor," he told newsmen rising from associate degree inter-ministerial meeting on projected Digital Security Act (DSA) at Bangladesh Secretariat.
The involved investigation officer or authorities, he said, would scrutinize the facts completely whereas inquiring the case before submitting police blotter.
"I have aforementioned it before and speech communication it once more, if any obstruction is formed against freedom of speech or against journalists, the investigation officers or agencies can inspect it," Huq said.
The minister's comments came amid media uproars over filing of many cases against newsmen underneath Section fifty seven of ICT Act in recent amount.
State minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim, state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, secretary of home ministry's security services division Farid Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, representatives from info ministry and completely different enforcement and intelligence agencies joined the meeting.
Officials at home with the meeting aforementioned the participants reviewed scopes of misuse of Section fifty seven however largely came out with the read that such a law was crucial to stop crimes with the utilization of ICT facilities.
They aforementioned till the enactment of the projected Digital Security Act, the Section fifty seven ought to be unbroken in situ, suggesting the relevant provisions of the ICT Act may be accommodated within the new law once it'd be written.
Replying to an issue concerning misuse of the Section fifty seven, the law minister aforementioned "as long because the section stays and if any crime is committed underneath the aforementioned section, cases are lodged".
"But I will tell you (again) that lodging of case isn't final. The investigation officer conducts a look before submitting the police blotter (and) I will assure you that this investigation are particularly reasonable," he said. He added: "In spite of this, if you (journalists) have worries concerning it, I will pass your concern to the investigation authorities," Huq additional.
The minister aforementioned no judgment was taken relating to the projected Digital Security Act because the final draft of the law would be created later incorporating the outline of today's discussion.
"The draft getting to be|are} placed within the final (inter-ministerial) meeting that we are going to going to hold in middle August . . . you may additionally get to check our call concerning Section fifty seven of the ICT ACT at that meeting," Huq said.bss.
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