Defamation Case: Tarique gets 2 years in jail for remark on Bangabandhu
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a Narail court in a defamation case over making derogatory comments about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Judge Amatul Morsheda of Narail Judicial Magistrate Court-2 pronounced the verdict, reports our Bagerhat correspondent.
The court also fined Tarique Tk 10,000, in default of which he will have to serve another six months in jail, Additional Public Prosecutor Sanjib Kumar Basu told The Daily Star.
According to the case statement, Tarique made derogatory comments about Bangabandhu at a meeting in London on December 16, 2014.
Later, the case was filed by Shahjahan Biswas, former commander of Muktijoddha Sangsad at Narail's Kalia upazila.
Tarique, who has been living in London since September 2008, was earlier convicted and sentenced in four other cases.
A Dhaka court on October 10, 2018 awarded him life imprisonment in two cases filed in connection with the deadly grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004.
In February the same year, Tarique was sentenced to 10 years in jail by another Dhaka court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. Besides, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by the High Court in a money laundering case in 2016.
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