Bashundhara chairman, wife, son get bail
A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam, his wife and son in two cases filed in 2007 after they surrendered before it.
Shah Alam, Afroza Begum, and Safayet Sobhan Sanvir got bail in a case filed on July 25 of 2007 for evading Tk 8.26 crore in income tax between 2004 and 2007.
On February 3, the Supreme Court asked them to surrender within three weeks before the trial court that sentenced them to different terms in the tax evasion case on September 30, 2007.
The SC also permitted the government to move an appeal before it against a High Court verdict that on June 20 of 2011 acquitted the six accused in the case.
Shah Alam and Sanvir also got bail in another case filed on the charge of giving bribes to the other accused for covering up the July 2006 murder of Humayun Kabir Sabbir, a director of the group. Earlier, their bail was cancelled and arrest warrants were issued. The other accused in the case include BNP leader Tarique Rahman and former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar. Sanvir, the prime accused, was acquitted in the murder case.
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