Fazlul Haque Amini, the chair of a faction of the Islami Oikya Jote, was sued on Sunday on charge of sedition for making 'derogatory' remarks about the Constitution.
Nazrul Islam Sardar, former assistant secretary of the Dhaka District Bar Association, filed the case with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court.
Metropolitan magistrate Rokhsana Begum Happy, who conducted the preliminary hearing of the case, did not pass any order.
The order will be passed later, she said.
In his complaint, Nurul Islam said that Amini on July 14, at a discussion on constitutional amendments, said, 'The Constitution won't only be thrown away but thrown into a dustbin.'
Amini made the above remark a day after BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said that the recent amendments to the Constitution were Awami League's own party agenda, so her party would throw the amendments away once it regained power.
On July 20 the High Court, in response to a petition filed by Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee's president Shahriar Kabir, summoned Amini to appear before it on July 27 to explain his remark.
The amendments passed in the Parliament on June 30 made 55 changes in the Constitution, including the scrapping of the election-time caretaker government system introduced through the 13th amendment in 1996, and retention of the four fundamental principles of the original charter of 1972. The main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and its allies who have been boycotting the House, were absent.
Amini defended himself by saying that his remarks were of a symbolic nature and his speech was a political speech.
He said that 'throwing the Constitution into the dustbin' in fact meant that that in the future the people will reject the 15th Amendment with abhorrence, and another party that comes to power will scrap the amendments and restore the previous provisions.
Source : New Age
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