HC bumps into forged bail order
A High Court bench yesterday came across a forged bail order and directed the criminal investigation department (CID) and Supreme Court registrar general to investigate into the matter.
The bench of Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal and Justice Md Khasruzzaman took notice of the fictitious bail order that was placed before it during hearing a petition filed by an accused seeking bail in a case filed in Chittagong in January last year over the possession of 22,000 pieces of Yaba tablets.
While the court was hearing a bail petition filed by Rafique, one of the accused in the case, it was presented with the forged copy of an HC order granting bail to Selim Uddin, another accused in the case.
The court became suspicious when Rafique's lawyers -- Mohammad Rezaul Karim and Mohammad Azizur Rahman Mishu -- placed before it Selim's bail order issued earlier by the same court, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Fazlur Rahman Khan told The Daily Star.
Since the judges of the court could not recollect granting bail to Selim in the Yaba possession case before, they called in four court officials -- tasked with typing, attaching, comparing and signing HC orders -- to verify whether the bail order was a forged one.
After scrutinising the document, the officials verified that Selim's bail order was not prepared by them, the DAG said, adding that the HC then ordered the CID and the SC registrar general to investigate into the incident and take necessary steps to this effect.
When asked, Rafique's two lawyers told the HC that they had received the HC order in question from Advocate Mozaffar -- a lawyer for Selim Uddin in Cox's Bazar, DAG Fazlur also said.
Contacted, Advocate Azizur Rahman Mishu, one of Rafique's two lawyers, told this correspondent that when they received the document, they did not realise that it was a forged order of the HC.
On January 8 last year, police in Chittagong city arrested five people with 22,000 pieces of Yaba tablets in their possession. The arrestees were Apan Majumder Rupesh from Noakhali; Deepak Chandra, Selim Uddin and Rafique from Chittagong; and Shirin Sultana Aakhi from Comilla.
Police filed a case against them the same day with Bayezid Bostami Police Station.
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