Social media content creator Ashraful Hossen, popularly known as Hero Alom, on Monday filed a case against the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi for his ‘defamatory’ remarks about him.

Hero Alom filed the case with the court of metropolitan magistrate Saiful Islam.

The court asked the Detective Branch of Police to investigate the allegation and submit its report to the court.

Alom on Sunday said that he visited the DB office to lodge a complaint against the BNP leader but the DB chief advised him to file a case with the court.

Alom alleged that Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made defamatory remarks branding him ‘half-mental’ and ‘uneducated’ while addressing a march programme of BNP.

‘A political leader like him can’t say that I am ‘half-mental’ and ‘uneducated’. I have participated in elections thrice in Dhaka and Bogra. If I am mental somehow as he stated the Election Commission would not allow me to contest the polls after scrutinising,’ he added.

Informing that he does not work for any party Alom said that no person has the right to abuse any person and brand anyone as half-mental and illiterate.