BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s elder son Tarique, who is an accused and wanted in several other cases, has been living in the UK for the past eight years. The case had initially accused only Tarique and former ETV chairman Abdus Salam, but later Khan and the channel’s senior reporter Kanak Sarwar were implicated in the chargesheet. Police had accused Tarique and Salam of “threatening Bangladesh's sovereignty and trying to create hatred against a legally constituted government by broadcasting and dishing out false and fabricated information”. The BNP leader was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and fined Tk 200 million by the High Court on Jul 21this year in a money laundering case. Earlier, arrest warrants were also issued for him in four cases, including one related to the August 21 grenade attack.

Source: bd News24 September 29, 2016 14:26 UTC