A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to Taposhee Tabassum Urmi, a Lalmonirhat assistant commissioner who was suspended over comments about the government, in a defamation case.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Imran Ahmed passed the order after Urmi appeared and applied for bail, according to the court officials.
Earlier on October 8, Abu Hanif, a senior council member and media coordinator of the People鈥檚 Rights Council, filed the defamation case against Urmi in the Dhaka court for making derogatory comments about the deceased, including Abu Sayeed during the quota reform student movement.
Then a Dhaka court ordered her to appear in court on November 28 after reviewing the record.
According to the complaint, on October 5, Urmi, on her Facebook page, wrote comments about the interim government chief, Professor Muhammad Yunus, and deceased people during the July-August movement that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5.
On October 5, Urmi wrote on Facebook that the interim government had no constitutional basis.
On October 7, she was suspended following the incident.