Khaleda sends legal notice to PM for ‘defamatory’ remarks

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia has sent a legal notice to prime minister Sheikh Hasina by lawyer for PM’s ‘defamatory’ remarks over siphoning huge amount of wealth to Saudi Arabia.

At a press conference on Wednesday at BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan in the capital, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters that Khaleda’s lawyer Mahbubuddin Khokon on Tuesday night sent the legal notice to PM by post.

The notice asked PM to apologise to the nation within 30 days for delivering ‘unlawful’ and ‘defamatory’ statements against Khaleda Zia and her family members. Otherwise, the party would take legal action to get compensation, the notice said.

Earlier, on December 8, the party warned that it would take legal action if Hasina failed to apologise.

On December 7, Hasina at a press conference mentioned allegation against Khaleda Zia and her family for siphoning huge amount of wealth to Saudi Arabia.

Fakhrul said that the prime minister’s statements on ‘imaginary smuggle out of wealth’ published in ‘imaginary mass media’ were ‘false, fabricated, baseless and politically motivated’.

He alleged that the key purpose of these fictitious stories of corruption was to tarnish Khaleda’s image and belittle her before people.

Fakhrul said that no responsible media published that imaginary information.

Such kind of false, baseless and fabricated statement of the prime minister was not only indecent but ‘unlawful’ and ‘punishable’, he said.

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