Khaleda sued over comments on Bangabandhu
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was sued yesterday allegedly for making a “defamatory statement” on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, filed the defamation case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Abullah Al Masud.
After the hearing, the court asked the officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station to submit a report by February 21 after investigation.
In the complaint, Siddique alleged that Khaleda, at a programme on December 31 last year, said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wanted to be the prime minister of undivided Pakistan rather than leading Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) to independence.
Moreover, in the name of development, the Awami League government looted a large amount of money by delaying the work of flyovers and Padma Bridge.
The BNP chief had made the remarks at the 38th founding anniversary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka.
Such remark had defamed the image of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well as of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The plaintiff appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant against the BNP chief.
Meanwhile, Khaleda will not appear today before the makeshift court at Bakshibazar Alia Madrasa to place her self-defence statements in connection with Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases due to hartal, said her lawyer Sanaullah Mia.
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