Court asks Rehana to surrender
by November 18
Courtesy New Age 12/11/07
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The court also ordered the authorities concerned for notify Rehana, who lives in
Rehana faces an extortion charge of Tk 2.99 crore. Hasina, also the Awami League chief, is also an accused in the case, filed by businessman Azam Jahangir Chowdhury with the Gulshan police on June 13.
The joint forces on July 16 arrested Hasina at her house in
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Shawkat Ali Chowdhury on Sunday issued the order for the advertisement as the police failed to execute the warrant for her or confiscation of her moveable property.
The magistrate said she would be tried in her absence if she failed to surrender in court.
The police submitted a report to the court saying they had gone to the house of Rehana on Road 7 at Gulshan, but she was not there and there was nothing to be confiscated.
The court on October 24 accepted the charge sheet filed on July 24 by the investigation officer, Obaidul Haque, also the Gulshan police officer-in-charge, against Hasina, former minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, also her cousin, and Rehana. Rehana was shown absconding in the charge sheet.
Rehana was not named in the first information report of the case filed by Azam, managing director of the Eastcoast Trading Limited.
According to case details, Selim took about Tk 3 crore in several phases between 2000 and 2001 from the plaintiff for the award of the installation of a power plant at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj.
Twenty-seven people, including a magistrate, two policemen and a Southeast Bank manager, have been made prosecution witnesses in the first charge sheet.
The High Court bench of Justice Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman and Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury on July 30 directed the government not to proceed with the case under the Emergency Powers Rules and issued a rule on the government to explain the legality of bringing the case under the emergency rules.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on August 27 stayed the execution of the High Court order and directed the parties to the case to take necessary initiatives for expeditious disposal of the writ petition
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