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Bangladesh PM gets legal notice for 'defamatory statement'
Wednesday January 02, 2013 07:48:10 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina was Wednesday sent a legal notice for a
"defamatory statement" against the deputy chief of the main
opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a party official
said.
Counsel for Tarique Rahman, the BNP's senior vice chairman, sent
the notice to the Prime Minister's Office, Shimul Biswas,
assistant to BNP chief and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, told
Xinhua.
Rahman served the notice on Hasina, asking her to withdraw a
recent "defamatory statement" against him, and apologise.
Rahman is Zia's elder son. He was arrested in March 2007 on
charges of corruption during the 2007-2008 military-controlled
caretaker government. He went to London after getting bail.
According to the notice, Hasina, also the president of the ruling
Awami League party, at a public rally in December said Rahman made
huge amounts of money through corruption and was leading a
luxurious life in London with illegally earned property and
assets.
"If she (Hasina) does not withdraw her statement and seek apology
publicly, we'll go for legal action against her," Rahman's counsel
Mahabub-uddin Khokon told Xinhua.
Khokon, also a BNP MP, said Rahman denied the allegations which
were brought against him by the prime minister, and said they were
"false and politically motivated".
In the legal notice, Rahman, who has been living in London and
undergoing treatment since September 2008, denied the charges of
corruption.
Xinhua said the PMO could not be reached for comment.
Last year, Zia's youngest son Arafat Rahman, now in Thailand, was
sentenced to jail for six years on corruption and money laundering
charges.
Since the end of her term in 2006, Rahman faced 14 cases on
charges of corruption and extortion.
Khaleda Zia was prime minister 1991-1996 and 2001-2006.
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