A Dhaka court has summoned BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a defamation complaint filed for terming the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina "a killer" and her party Awami League "a party of killers."
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey passed the order on Thursday morning.
The court directed Fakhrul to appear before the court on January 22.
On September 1, SM Nur-e-Alam Siddique, vice-president of Awami Motsojibi League, lodged the complaint with Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
Meanwhile, the plaintiff's lawyer Advocate Shariful Islam requested the court to issue an arrest warrant against Fakhrul as Paltan police station Officer-in-Charge Tofail Ahmed submitted the probe report in the court on December 15.
In his complaint, the plaintiff stated that Mirza Fakhrul termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a killer and her party Awami League a party of killers while addressing in a press conference at party's Nayapaltan office on August 24.
Newspapers published Fakhrul's statement the following day.
Fakhrul had defamed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the ruling Awami League through his comment, he mentioned.