A defamation case was filed yesterday against BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for branding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as “a killer” and her party Awami League “a party of killers.”
SM Nur-e-Alam Siddique, vice-president of Bangladesh Awami Motshojibi League – the ruling party’s fishermen wing, lodged the case with Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Court.
After recording the complainant’s deposition, Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarti ordered the officer-in-charge of Paltan police station to submit a report following an investigation before the court on September 15.
Fakhrul made the comments while addressing a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan headquarters on August 24.
The plaintiff said the BNP leader had defamed the premier and the ruling party through his comments. “I saw reports on Fakhrul’s remarks on different dailies on August 25. His speech tarnished the image of the prime minister at home and abroad,” Nur said.
Fakhrul at the press briefing said: “The Awami League president [Sheikh Hasina] herself is a killer. Her party is a party of killers. Her hands are stained with the bloods of hundreds of young people.”
He made the comment three days after Hasina had termed the Zia family, a family of killers. She said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman had been involved in the killing of Bangabandhu while Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and her cabinet members in the August 21 grenade attack.
The BNP spokesperson said the primer's remarks were tantamount to contempt of court.
