BNP leader Aslam charged with treason

The police on Thursday brought formal charges of treason against BNP joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury allegedly for conspiring with Israeli spy aency to topple the government.

The treason lawsuit was filed with Gulshan police station on Thursday night, said officer-in-charge of the station.

Earlier in the daily, inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Haque told newsmen that the police had found evidence that Aslam conspired with an Israeli politician to overthrow the Awami League-led government.

Plainclothes police detained Aslam from the capital on 15 May evening.

He was held hours after Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) commissioner Iqbal Bahar said there was an order not to allow Aslam to leave the country and arrest him whenever he would be found.

Several local newspapers published reports attaching more than one photographs of the BNP leader’s meeting with Israeli influential leader Mendi N Safadi.

But, Aslam denied any conspiracy against the government although he admitted to meeting Safadi at a tea party in India.