Arrest warrant against Giash Quader Chy

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 18 (BSS): A Chattogram court issued on Wednesday a warrant of arrest against BNP central vice-president Giash Uddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of offensive and defamatory remarks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Shahidullah Kaiser passed the order as he did not appear before the court on successive occasions.

Defense lawyer of Giash Quader Chowdhury Advocate Enamul Haque told the court that Chowdhury could not appear before the court as he is now under treatment in Singapore for heart problems.

But the court rejected his time petition and issued warrant of arrest against Giash, also younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

Nazim Uddin Muhury, general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Fatikchhari upazila unit, filed the case against Giash Uddin Quader Chowdhury for his derogatory and defamatory remarks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

At a function in Fatikchari upzila of Chittagong on May 31 last year, marking the death anniversary of former president Ziaur Rahman, Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, referring to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had said: “Your condition will be worse than your father’s”.