The High Court on Thursday threw out two defamatory cases filed against Shoaib Chowdhury, editorial board chairman of The Asian Age newspaper by Exim Bank and NASSA Group. A bench of Justices ASM Abdul Mobin and Md Atwar Rahman passed the order during a hearing on a petition seeking dismissal of these cases. Barrister Mahbub Shafiq appeared for the petitioner. Read more: HC orders speedy disposal of graft case against Gayeshwar He said charge sheets in these cases were submitted to court in 2020. After that a petition was filed seeking quashing of the proceedings in these two cases, he said. On October 24, 2019, The Asian Age published a report titled “A monster behind spoiling banks.” On November 5 that year, Exim Bank’s senior assistant vice president Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury and NASSA group consultant Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Sirajul Islam on November 11, filed two separate cases of defamation against six journalists of The Asian Age including Shoaib Chowdhury for that report. On June, 2020, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted charge sheet in these cases against only Shoaib Chowdhury.