The vice president of the Awami Matsyajibi League has filed a defamation suit against the acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, for terming the ruling Awami League a "killer party" and its chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a "killer".
According to the Daily Star, Nur e-Alam Siddique filed the case against Fakhrul with the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Dhaka.
After hearing the charges, Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakrabarti asked the office-in-charge of Paltan Police Station to submit a report on investigation before the court on September 15.
Fakhrul had made the defamatory statement at the BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters on August 24.
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