BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been sued for terming Awami League and its chief Sheikh Hasina as ‘killers’.
Awami Matsyajibi League Vice-president SM Noor-e-Alam Siddiqui filed a defamation suit at Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
After hearing the charges, Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakraborty asked Paltan Police OC to submit a report after investigating the allegation.
The plaintiff’s lawyer Dulal Mitra said the case, filed over comments made by the BNP leader during a press briefing at Naya Paltan on Aug 24, had four witnesses.
“His comment was widely reported on online newspapers on that day and newspapers on the following day. The leader has suffered defamation personally, socially and internationally due to the comment,” the plea read.
Mirza Fakhrul talking to reporters at BNP’s headquarters had taken a dig at Sheikh Hasina for saying BNP, its chairperson Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman were all killers.
“She said our call to resist the Jan 5 polls was a murderous movement,” Fakhrul had said.
“The whole nation knows that she let police and RAB to kill more than 500 leaders and activists who were pursuing a democratic movement from November to January. 65 people are still missing.
“She is a killer. Her party is that of killers. Her hands are stained by the blood of hundreds of innocent lives.”
Source: bdnews24