Sylhet industrialist Ragib Ali sent to jail

A Sylhet court today sent industrialist Ragib Ali to jail in two cases filed grabbing land of Tarapur Tea Estate in the district.

The court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate passed the order rejecting his bail pleas after police produced him before it this afternoon, hours into Indian police handed him over to Bangladesh.

Indian police detained him when he went to the immigration office to extend his visa at Karimganj in Assam province of India, our Sylhet correspondent reports quoting Sugyan Chakma, additional superintendent of Sylhet district police.

After detention, India police handed him over to Sylhet district police at 2:50pm, Sugyan said.

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He escaped to India from his home district Sylhet three months ago to avoid arrest in two cases filed against him over grabbing the land of an endowment property.

A Sylhet court on October 10 issued an arrest warrant against him and his son Abdul Hye after accepting two charge sheets against them.

Police submitted the charge sheets to Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Court on July 10.

SM Abdul Hye, land commissioner of Sylhet Sadar, filed the two cases with Sylhet Kotwali Police Station on September 27, 2005.