Waiting for police: Kader Siddiqui

Abdul Kader Siddiqui says he is now in the ‘custody’ of his wife and waiting for police to arrive to take him in custody ever since an arrest warrant was out for him in a defamation suit. His wife Nasrin Siddiqui was with him when the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League (BKSJL) president met with the reporters at his home in the city. Kader Siddiqui said he had not moved to secure bail in the case. ‘The situation in the country is not good. They can arrest me any time. I am waiting for them at home,’ said the valiant freedom fighter. A Dhaka court issued arrest warrant for Kader Siddiqui, who was awarded Bir Uttam for his bravery, in a defamation case filed against him for having called former home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir a ‘Razakar’, or a war-time collaborator of the Pakistani occupation forces. National Freedom Fighter Foundation General Secretary Ruhul Amin Majumdar filed the case in Feb 19 last year. At a discussion on Sept 2, 2012, Siddiqui had alleged that Alamgir tried to defend Pakistan as an additional deputy commissioner of Mymensingh, according to a news agency.