Tarique's mother-in-law gets bail
BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman's mother-in-law yesterday got bail in a case filed for not submitting a wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Unable to move, seventy-five-year-old Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu was sitting in her car on the court premises during the hearing.
After getting clearance from Public Prosecutor Mir Ahmed Abdus Salam that Banu was sitting in her car on the court premises and that she was sick, Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court granted her bail.
Earlier in the day, her lawyer Masud Ahmed Talukder submitted the bail petition. On April 12, a Dhaka court accepted the charge and ordered her arrest.
ACC on January 30, 2014, filed the case with Ramna Police Station accusing Banu. On January 19 last year, the anti-graft body filed the charge.
According to the case statement, the ACC issued a notice to Banu on October 20, 2012, asking her to submit "statements of moveable and immovable assets and liability acquired by her and her dependents in their name or in the name of others, and source of income with detailed particulars" within seven days.
On January 30, 2012, the High Court stayed the operation of the notice for four months following a writ petition filed by Banu.
However, on May 3, 2012, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed the order paving the way for the ACC to obtain Banu's wealth statement.
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