News desk: A Chattogram court has issued an arrest warrant against BNP leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury in a defamation case filed for making “derogatory remarks” about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Judge Shahidullah Kaiser of Judicial Magistrate court-4 passed the order on Thursday after Nazim Uddin Mohuri, general secretary of Fatikchhari upazila Awami League, filed the case.
Three more defamation cases have been filed against Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, the younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
The court summoned him in another case filed by Akram Hossain, a member of AL central sub-committee.
Moreover, the court ordered the officer-in-charge of Panchlaish Police Station to take steps for enlisting a case as FIR filed by Nurul Azam Rony, former general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Chattogram city.
While addressing a discussion programme on the 37th death anniversary of late president Ziaur Rahman, Giasuddin said: “There was no one to say Inna Lillahi Wa Innailayhi Raji'un after the death of Bangabandhu Sheikh Muzubur Rahman. The Prime Minister’s fate will be even more dangerous. She has to take the responsibility of those being killed in the name of crossfire.”
He also described the prime minister as a threat to the country.
