A Dhaka court yesterday for the third time ordered the OC of Gulshan Police Station to submit a report by January 14, on the status of executing arrest warrant against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, in a case filed over undermining the country's map and national flag.

Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmin passed the order after Gulshan police failed to submit any report regarding the matter or submit any petition before the court, explaining the reason for the failure.

Earlier, on October 12 and November 12, the court ordered Gulshan police to submit the report on the execution of arrest warrant that had been  issued on October 12.

On November 3 last year, AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, a pro-Awami League organisation, filed the case with the court, accusing Khaleda and her late husband and former president Ziaur Rahman of undermining the country's map and national flag.

According to the case statement, Zia had become the country's president after the killings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975. Zia also threatened Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina and confined her after she arrived in the country from abroad on May 17, 1981.

Khaleda had formed a coalition government with Jamaat-e-Islami in 2001. She appointed ministers from Jamaat and handed over the map and the national flag of independent Bangladesh despite their role against the country during the Liberation War in 1971, the statement read.

Those activities were tantamount to undermining the country's map and national flag, it added.