Judge's native home burnt after Tarique order

Miscreants have torched Justice Qazi Rezaul Haque's ancestral house in Feni hours after a High Court bench ordered a ban on media coverage of Tarique Rahman's speeches and statements.

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Haque's nephew Rommel said unidentified miscreants set fire to the kitchen in his uncle’s ancestral very early on Thursday.

The house is located at Mohammedpur village in Dhalia Union of Feni Sadar Upazila.

But no one was injured in the fire, Rommel said.

The bench of Justices Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Abu Taher Mohammad Saifur Rahman passed an order banning reporting of Tarique Rahman's speeches and statements in media on Wednesday.

The order was passed by the two judges after hearing of a petition by one Nasrin Siddiqui Lina.

The order has instructed the information secretary to implement the High Court order.

The petition filed on Tuesday sought High Court orders directing the information secretary to prevent newspapers, electronic media and social media from publicising, broadcasting or reproducing Tarique's speeches.

After hearing the matter, the court issued an interim order barring publication and broadcasting of the BNP leader's speeches or statements in mainstream and social media as long he is absconding.

Implicated in a couple of corruption cases, Khaleda's elder son Tarique Rahman has been living in London since 2008 after being released in parole. Later he was declared absconding by a Dhaka court in a case of money laundering.

Haque's nephew Rommel said that no one was living in the judge's ancestral house for a long time as his uncle lived with his family in Dhaka.

The fire gutted the bamboo fence and tin roof of the house.

Justice Haque was in the house last March but not after that, Rommel said.

Feni's Additional Police Superintendent Md Saiful Haq said the offenders will be brought to book.