ETV chairman says vested group trying to tarnish his image

By Staff Correspondent
9 October 2005, 18:00 PM
The Ekushey Television (ETV) Chairman Abdus Salam in a press release yesterday said a vested quarter, failing to take over ETV, is trying to destroy his image and reputation through propaganda about his personal life.

Salam said the vested quarter, in connivance with his former wife Farzana Shilpi, has been plotting and implicating him in false cases.

Farzana Shilpi filed a case against Salam with Kafrul Police Station under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act for torturing and attempt to rape.

Salam claimed all the allegations Shilpi brought against him were false and she plotted the whole matter with her mother, Maya Begum, when she [Shilpi] was in USA. He also said Shilpi spoke of a plot to kill him. Salam claimed to have the recorded tape of their conversation.

"The vested quarter has captured my house by making a false story with the help of my former wife and they have destroyed valuable documents including share documents of ETV," Salam said.

"The quarter has tried its best by all means to capture ETV and has failed in each and every step," he continued, "now they conspire with her [Shilpi] only to capture ETV."