By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka

 

A sedition case was filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday for terming the country’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as ‘Pakbandhu’ (Friend of Pakistan) and spreading misinformation about the Liberation War of 1971.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Asaduzzaman Noor heard the case of ‘condemnation of the creation of the state’ and ‘advocacy of the abolition of its sovereignty’ lodged against Rahman by Bangabandhu Foundation president Moshiur Malek.

The court is likely to decide about taking the case into
cognisance later on.

In his complaint, Malek alleged that he came to know from a news report published in vernacular daily Kaler Kontho on September 29 that Rahman termed Bangabandhu as ‘Pakbandhu’ while addressing a discussion, titled ‘Bangladesher Prothom President Bishwaneta Shaheed Ziaur Rahman: Prekkhit Bangladesh’, in London.

He said that Rahman also remarked that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman considered the Pakistani occupation forces safe instead of millions of his
countrymen on March 25, 1971.

Rahman has “spread ill-propaganda against the history of Bangladesh, the Liberation War of 1971 and the role of Bangabndhu” if the news published in Kaler Kontho is true, the complaint added.

Rahman, eldest son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, is now living in London on
self-exile.

 

 

 

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