Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr. Abdul Malek has apprised State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat of investigation into the incident of handing down imprisonment to Dainik Desh Rupantar’s Nakla Upazila correspondent Shafiuzzaman Rana of Sherpur district by a mobile court.
The CIC informed the state minister at a meeting at his office at Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital on Monday afternoon.

Arafat extended thanks to the Information Commission for submitting the report quickly after carrying out the probe.
At meeting with the CIC, he said that the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes in complete freedom of the media and professional journalists.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is against the unwanted harassment on any professional journalist and it is committed to protecting any professional journalist, the state minister added.
Arafat also said that people have the right to get information.