A Dhaka Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a defamation case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Anwar Sadat passed the order.

AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad, a pro-Awami league organisation, filed the case on September 8, 2014, for making derogatory comments against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.


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