Petition for defamation case against Gayeshwar

Staff Correspondent: A petition has been filed to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court for defamation case against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy.

 

Manindra Kumar Nath, a child of martyred freedom fighters` families, also assistant managing director (AMD)of Mercantile Bank, filed the petition to the court of Judge Aminul on Thursday.

 

According to the petition, on December 25 last year at National Press Club, BNP leader Gayeshwar said the intellectuals who died on December 14, 1971, they were foolish. They took salaries from Pakistan government till December 14 in 1971.

 

Gayeshwar added that they died foolishly but we are to place wreaths to their graves. It is termed sin as we do not do so.

 

Gayeshwar posed a question in his discussion that If they were intellectuals, how they stayed at houses till December 14, 1971?

 

He said, "They become freedom fighters who took salaries from the Pakistan government, but the people who were on run without food for the sake of the country, they were labeled as Razakar."

 

risingbd/Dhaka/Jan 21, 2016/Mamun khan/A K Azad