Arrest order out for BNP leader Tarique Rahman on sedition charges

A court in Dhaka has issued arrest warrants against senior BNP leader Tarique Rahman and two others on charges of treason.

Court Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 23 Oct 2017, 08:12 AM
Updated : 23 Oct 2017, 08:12 AM

Prosecutor Tapash Kumar Pal said the court on Monday accepted the police chargesheet in the case.

The 2015 case was filed by police over ETV's live telecast of Tarique's speech at a programme in London on Jan 5 that year.

Three days later, Dhaka's Tejgaon police filed the case and pressed treason charges against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique, the then ETV chairman Abdus Salam, former chief reporter Mahathir Faruqi and former senior reporter Kanak Sarwar.

Salam is out on bail. The court ordered the arrests of Faruqi and Sarwar on Monday.

Prosecutor Pal said the court fixed Nov 20 for the indictment hearing.

Police say the suspects threatened the country’s sovereignty and tried to incite hatred against a legally constituted government by broadcasting and uttering false and fabricated information.

They had also tried to create a rift in the judiciary and internal conflicts within the army, border guards and police, according to the case documents.