A legal notice has been sent to Barrister Asaduzzaman Fuad, general secretary of the Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party), accusing him of making defamatory and objectionable remarks about Dhaka University. The notice, issued by a student of the university’s law department, calls for a public apology within 72 hours. It also demands compensation of 100 crore taka to the university fund for alleged damage to the institution’s reputation.

The notice was sent on Thursday, July 2, by Tanmoy Kumar Saha, a former student of Dhaka University’s 33rd batch law department and a lawyer at the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Copies were also sent to the secretaries of the education and home ministries, the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, and Barrister Fuad himself.

Earlier, Nasir Uddin Nasir, general secretary of the central Chhatra Dal, criticized Fuad’s remarks as arrogant and a misrepresentation of history, urging him to withdraw his comments and issue a public apology.