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| Top Jamaat leaders, Shibir chief sued |
| 2010-11-03 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Chief of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), acting ameer and acting secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami and five other top leaders of opposition political parties were sued in a sedition case with a Chittagong court yesterday for making "derogatory remarks" about the prime minister and home minister. Abu Taiyab, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League Chittagong (north) unit, filed the case against ICS President Rezaul Karim, Jamaat Acting Ameer Maqbul Ahmad and Acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam. The others sued in the case are Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) Secretary General Shamim Al Mamun, secretary general of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote Abdul Latif Nezami, Jatiya Gonotantrik Party (Jagpa) President Shafiul Alam Prodhan, National People's Party (NPP) President Sheikh Showkat Hossain Nilu and Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP-Bhashani) President Sheikh Anwarul Haque. The case was filed with 5th Judicial Magistrate's court of Judge AKM Akhter Hossain around 12:30pm. Taiyab in his complaint stated that ICS chief Rezaul at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka on October 28 made the "threatening and derogatory remarks," referring to BDR carnage and Paltan killings. The Shibir chief reportedly told the discussion, "You (PM) relinquish power. Pilkhana carnage and Paltan killings are waiting for you. You (PM) have committed the most crimes against humanity... One swallow doesn't make a summer." The accused were involved in creating hatred against the PM and home minister in a pre-planned way, read the complaint, only to oust a democratic government. The other accused were sued as they were present at the discussion as speakers and involved in the conspiracy, stated the plaintiff. |
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