Chittagong city south unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has lodged a sedition case against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman for delivering derogatory speeches addressing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
BCL Banshkhali Upazila unit’s former General Secretary Shihab Ul Haque, on behalf of BCL’s district south unit, lodged the case before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Moshiur Rahman Chowdhury.
The court took the case into its cognisance and ordered Kotwali police station officer-in-charge to look into the matter, said court sources.
The court ordered to submit report within 10 days, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner (Prosecution) Nirmolendu Bikash Chakrabarty.
Advocate Rony Kumar Dey, counsel for the plaintiff, said the plaintiff claimed Tarique, delivering derogatory speeches over Bangabandhu and Liberation War, plotted against the country’s birth and sovereignty. So, he lodged the case under section 123(A) of Criminal Procedure Code.
On December 18, BCL Chittagong city unit’s General Secretary Nurul Azim Rony lodged a case before the same court with the same charge.
On December 15, Tarique, addressing a programme in London, called Bangladesh’s founding president Bangabandhu a “Razakar,” a term which has become synonymous with a collaborator or traitor of Pakistani military 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.
Following that, the premier at a discussion in the capital on December 17, terming Tarique as ‘spoiled son’, told BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to hold her son’s tongue.
