A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a "Razzakar.”
Mamtaj Uddin Ahmad, former secretary of the Supreme Court Lawyers Association, sent the legal notice to BNP’s Nayapaltan office in the capital on Wednesday morning.
In the legal notice, Mamtaj asked Tarique to apologise for this “derogatory” statement within seven days.
While addressing a programme in London, Tarique called Bangladesh’s founding president Bangabandhu a “Razakar,”, a term which has become synonymous with a collaborator or traitor since the 1971 Liberation War.
Tarique said Sheikh Mujib had accepted Yahya Khan as Pakistan's president and went for the national and provincial elections accepting his conditions.
He claimed that father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Mujib never wanted an independent Bangladesh but a combined Pakistan.
Earlier on December 10, a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against Tarique Rahman in a defamation case for calling Bangabandhu "Pakbandhu."
Tarique has been in London since September 11, 2008 on medical grounds after securing parole in various cases.
He faces 14 charges, of which four, including the August 21 grenade attack case, are on trial and the rest are stayed.
