A summons issued by the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court, asking Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on March 3, was hung on the gate of her Gulshan house on Tuesday as none received it.
In the summons, Khaleda was asked to appear before the court on March 3 in a sedition case filed on Monday accusing her of committing sedition by doubting the figure of martyrs of the Liberation War and the role of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami League in the war.
A member of the security team of the BNP chief confirmed the hanging of the summons at the gate of Khaleda’s house in the late afternoon.
Metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Rashed Talukder issued the summons on Monday after recording the statement of the plaintiff, former Supreme Court Bar Association secretary Mamtazuddin Ahmed Mehedi, also ruling Awami League central working committee member.
Process server of the court Jabid Hossain Bacchu told New Age that he went to Khaleda’s house at Gulshan at about 12:30pm on Tuesday to serve the summons and he talked to Khaleda’s security official retired major Aziz Rana, who asked him to wait.
After several hours of waiting, Aziz told the process server that Khaleda was sleeping and he could go to Khaleda’s Gulshan office to meet her personal assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswash, Jabid said.
When the process server went to the Gulshan office, Shamsur told him that he could not receive the summons and asked him to go to BNP central office at Nayapaltan.
‘As Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan house was mentioned as her address in the summons, I went there again,’ he Jabid.
When he reached Khaleda’s house again, Khaleda’s house staff told him that the security official Aziz went out of the house.
After waiting till 5:15pm, another security official of Khaleda, retired major Anwar Hossain, told the process server that the summons could not be received, Jabid added.
The process server then hung the summons on the gate and left the house.
Khaleda’s lawyer Sanaullah Mia said that the person concerned either could receive or not receive the summons and it depended on the person’s wish.
Addressing a rally of Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on December 21, 2015, Khaleda stated that there were controversies over the actual figure of martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
Source: New Age
