HC asks Bashundhara chairman to surrender to lower courts
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Turning a deaf ear to his pleas, the High Court (HC) has asked fugitive-accused Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam, chairman of Basundhara Industrial Complex Limited, to surrender before the designated lower courts within eight weeks, reports UNB.
A HC division bench comprising Justice M Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddiquee Tuesday passed the orders as he surrendered before it and sought ad interim anticipatory bail in connection with seven criminal cases.
The bench in its orders has asked the government not to arrest or harass the accused-petitioner during the eight-week period.
The cases include mostly grabbing of private and state lands, government canals and water bodies and a graft case in which Shah Alam was accused of giving Tk 210 million in bribes to former state minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar to save his son Sanvir from the Humayun Kabir Sabbir murder case.
Sabbir, a director of Bashundhara Group, was murdered on July 5 in 2006.
Earlier, on September 30 in 2007, a special court sentenced Shah Alam along with his family to eight years' imprisonment in absentia in a tax-evasion case.
On July 7 in 2008, a session court in Dhaka also sentenced Shah Alam to two years' imprisonment in absentia for illegally keeping local and foreign currency at his house.
Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, MP, assisted by $advocate Mehdi Hassan Chowdhury, appeared for accused-petitioner Shah Alam, while deputy attorney general M Selim stood for the government and opposed the bail petitions.
A HC division bench comprising Justice M Shamsul Huda and Justice Abu Bakar Siddiquee Tuesday passed the orders as he surrendered before it and sought ad interim anticipatory bail in connection with seven criminal cases.
The bench in its orders has asked the government not to arrest or harass the accused-petitioner during the eight-week period.
The cases include mostly grabbing of private and state lands, government canals and water bodies and a graft case in which Shah Alam was accused of giving Tk 210 million in bribes to former state minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar to save his son Sanvir from the Humayun Kabir Sabbir murder case.
Sabbir, a director of Bashundhara Group, was murdered on July 5 in 2006.
Earlier, on September 30 in 2007, a special court sentenced Shah Alam along with his family to eight years' imprisonment in absentia in a tax-evasion case.
On July 7 in 2008, a session court in Dhaka also sentenced Shah Alam to two years' imprisonment in absentia for illegally keeping local and foreign currency at his house.
Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, MP, assisted by $advocate Mehdi Hassan Chowdhury, appeared for accused-petitioner Shah Alam, while deputy attorney general M Selim stood for the government and opposed the bail petitions.