Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) issued a warrant of arrest against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique
Rahman in a case filed on charge of sedition and defamation for saying Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ‘Razakar’. Magistrate Mohammad Yunus Khan passed the order in the afternoon. Earlier, Advocate Md Mostafizur Rahman Dulal lodged the case with the CMM Court. The case statement says that while addressing a gathering in London on December 15, Tarique Rahman termed the Bangabandhu a Razakar, which means a collaborator of Pakistani occupation force during the War for Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Sheikh Mujib had accepted Yahya Khan as the President of Pakistan and took part in the national and the provincial assemblies’ elections of Pakistan following his set conditions, Tarique added in his speech. Besides, he claimed that Sheikh Mujib, the father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, never wanted independent Bangladesh, but an united Pakistan.
On December 10, another court of Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against Tarique Rahman in a defamation case filed for calling Bangabandhu ‘Pakbandhu’.
Tarique has been staying in London since September 11, 2008 for medical treatment after release on parole in several cases. He has been facing 14 charges. The trial of four cases, including the 21st August grenade attack are proceeding, and the remaining cases have been stayed by different courts.
