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Police submit report in sedition case against BNP chief Khaleda’s son Tarique Rahman
Police have submitted the report in a sedition case against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman.
Published : 20 Sept 2015, 05:48 PM
Updated : 20 Sept 2015, 05:48 PM
Detective Branch Assistant Commissioner Jewel Rana filed the document to the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor in Dhaka on Sunday.
Court official Kabir Hossain told bdnews24.com that the judge set Nov 8 for issuing an order.
Bangabandhu Foundation President Moshiur Malek filed the case under the Section 123 (Ka) of the Bangladesh Penal Code on Oct 19, 2014.
In the case, Malek said Tarique had described his father Ziaur Rahman as the first president of Bangladesh in a programme in London on Sep 29. Malek maintained the claim was ‘false and intentional’.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique also called the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a ‘Pakbandhu (a friend of Pakistan)’.
Such remarks amounted to a distortion of the history of Bangladesh’s Liberation War against Pakistan, the plaintiff said.
When the case was filed, the judge ordered the Detective Branch to engage an officer not below the rank of an assistant commissioner on permission from the government to investigate the charge.
Tarique Rahman had been arrested during the military-backed caretaker government in 2007.
He had been implicated in a dozen of corruption cases then. He went to the UK for treatment on bail in September 2008 but has not returned.
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