Khaleda will launch legal fight against sedition case

BNP leader and Supreme Court Bar Association President Khandker Mahbub Hossain yesterday said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia would take all necessary legal steps to face the sedition case filed against her.

Khaleda is aware of the summons issued against her in the case, although she did not receive the order, said Khandker Mahbub, also a lawyer for the BNP chief, while talking to reporters at his SCBA office.

A summons is issued against anybody in order to inform the accused person about filing of a case against him or her, he said. Is there any rule of pasting the order at the entrance of the residence of a person? he asked.

Khandker Mahbub, also an adviser to the BNP chairperson, said Khaleda was respectful to the law and she would tackle the case legally.

The "government is doing politics" over this issue, he said, adding that there was no element of sedition in the case against her.

A Supreme Court lawyer on January 25 filed the sedition case with a Dhaka court, appealing to it to issue an arrest warrant against Khaleda for her remarks about the number of martyrs during the 1971 Liberation War. Taking cognisance of the charge, the court the same day issued a summons and asked Khaleda to appear before it on March 3. The summons was pasted on the entrance to her Gulshan residence on January 26, as staff of the house refused to receive the court order.