Defamation case: Court serves arrest warrant for Tarique Rahman

A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday issued arrest warrant for Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior vice chairman, Tarique Rahman, for his derogatory remarks regarding Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The court also asked the authority to submit a report before it by January 29 on execution of the arrest warrant. Earlier on November 17, the court had summoned Tarique to appear before it today (December 10) in connection with the case. Monir Khan, assistant secretary of Awami League’s central sub-committee, lodged the lawsuit against the son of BNP Chairperson and also former prime minister, Khaleda Zia.

In his case papers, Monir alleged that Tarique called Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ‘Pakbandhu’ (friend of Pakistan) at a discussion in London on September 29. ‘Sheikh Mujibur Rahman cannot be the Father of the Nation. He returned to the country with a Pakistani passport. Someone who accepts Pakistani passport even after Bangladesh’s independence is a citizen of that country in the eyes of the law,’ Tarique told a meeting at York Hall in East London.

- See more at: http://newagebd.net/75269/smearing-sheikh-mujib-court-serves-arrest-warrant-for-tarique-rahman/#sthash.iHNjMyth.dpuf