Khaleda summoned for celebrating fake birthday

Journalist Gazi Zahirul Islam, former joint secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists, filed the case with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court under sections 198 and 469 of the Penal Code. After recording statement of the complainant, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Mazharul Islam summoned the BNP chief to appear before the court on October 17 to give statement about the allegation. According to the case statement, Khaleda Zia has been intentionally celebrating her fake birthday since August 15, 1996. The celebration of a fake birthday on August 15 was a defamation of Bangabandhu and his family members, who were assassinated on August 15 in 1975, the case statement read. “Reports had been published in the Daily Ittefaq on August 22, 1997, and in the Daily Sangbad on August 27, 1997, over the birth dates of Khaleda Zia.”