DHAKA, Jan 22, 2020 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today ordered authorities
concerned to publish newspaper advertisement asking 11 people including
former Chief Justice Surendra Kuman Sinha to appear before it in a graft
case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayes passed the order,
asking to submit report in this regard on February 20.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the
case on July 10, 2019, for embezzling Taka four crore from then Farmers Bank
and laundering the money abroad.
Today was set for submitting report on executing order to arrest the 11
accused. As the police submitted the report, the court ordered to publish the
advertisement on two national dailies, asking them to surrender before the
court.
The court on January 5 issued arrest warrant against them.
The other accused are- former Farmers Bank managing director AKM
Shameem, first vice-presidents Swapan Kumar Roy and Shafiuddin Askaree,
senior executive vice-presidents Gazi Salauddin and Ziauddin Ahmed, and vice-
president M Lutful Haque, bank clients Md Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha,
his uncle Ranajit Chandra Saha, and Ranajit’s wife Santree Roy.
According to the allegation, Md Shahjahan and Niranjan took the money on
loan from then Farmers Bank, which was later transferred to Justice Sinha’s
Sonali Bank account, showing it was earned from selling of his (Sinha’s)
house.