DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed February 12 as a date of charge framing hearing against Quader Siddique in a defamation case for calling former Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir a Razakar.

Additional Judge of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Ali Masud Sheikh fixed the date.

On November 11, the court issued arrest warrant against Bit Uttam Quader Siddique as he did not report to the court in 14 consecutive dates after taking bail on March 18 of 2013.

National FF Foundation general secretary Ruhul Amin Majumder filed the law suit on behalf of MK Alamgir on February 19 of 2013.

The case statement said Quader Siddique, in a rally of Krishak-Sramik-Janata League at Engineers Institution on February 9 of 2013, said, “It is not possible to bring war criminals under trial keeping Razakar home minister in position.”

The statement also said MK Alamgir was not only the home minister but also former president of Arthaniti Samity as well as a noted economist of South East Asia and a popular writer.

The case statement further said that the nation is indebted to his family though no member of MK Alamgir’s family participated in the liberation war directly adding that no one of his family is Razakar.

BDST: 1852 HRS, DEC 11, 2014