Publish ad asking SK Sinha to appear on Feb 20
Dhaka court directs authorities
A Dhaka court yesterday directed authorities concerned of the government to publish advertisements in two national dailies asking former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others to appear before it on February 20 in a graft case.
After getting reports on execution of arrest warrant, Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order.
On January 5, the same court issued arrest warrants against all the accused in the case, as they were shown “fugitives” in the charge-sheets.
The court also took cognisance of the charges against them in the case filed for allegedly misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from Farmers Bank in 2016.
On December 4 last year, Anti-Corruption Commission pressed charges against Sinha and 10 others.
The other accused are: the bank’s former managing director AKM Shamim; Senior Executive Vice-President and former head of Credit Division Gazi Salahuddin; First Vice-President of Credit Division Swapan Kumar Roy; First Vice-President Shafiuddin Askary; former chairman of the bank’s audit committee Mahbubul Haque Chisty and Vice-President Lutful Haque.
One Shahjahan of Tangail’s Sreehoripur village, Ranjit Chandra Saha of the district’s Jodunathpur village, Sinha’s wife Santri Roy and nephew Niranjan Chandra Saha were also made accused.
ACC in October last year said it found evidence of fraud involving transactions of Tk 4 crore borrowed with fake documents by two businessmen, Shahjahan and Niranjan, from the bank. It said the money was deposited to Sinha’s account.
On July 10, the ACC filed a case against Sinha and 10 others for their alleged involvement with misappropriating and laundering the money.
CASE BY NAZMUL HUDA
The same court yesterday discharged SK Sinha after accepting the final report of a graft case filed against him by former BNP minister Barrister Nazmul Huda.
On January 14, ACC submitted the report relieving Sinha as they did not find evidence of graft allegation against him.
On September 27 last year, Nazmul filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station alleging that Sinha demanded bribe from him.