Embezzling Tk 1.27cr of Zakat Fund: Sayedee files revision petition challenging charges framed
Convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee has filed a revision petition with the High Court challenging the lower court order that framed charges against him in a case filed for embezzling Tk 1.27 crore from Islamic Foundation's Zakat Fund.
Sayedee, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, submitted the revision petition through his lawyer Md Muzahedul Islam Shahin yesterday (Sunday) seeking stay on the trial proceedings of the case against him.
Citing the petition, lawyer Muzahedul Islam told The Daily Star today that there is no evidence against Sayedee of transacting and embezzling any money from Islamic Foundation's Zakat Fund and there was no mention of his name in the first information report and charge sheet of the case.
Investigation Officer Wazed Ali Gazi has recorded statements of 25 witnesses of the case who did not mention the name of Sayedee, he said, adding that the embezzlement case was filed in order to harass him.
Muzahedul Islam said the HC is yet to set any date for holding hearing on the petition.
On January 11, a Dhaka court framed charges against Sayedee and five others in the case.
Islamic Foundation's finance and accounting director Aiyub Ali Chowdhury filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on May 24, 2010.
Wajed Ali Gazi, an assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, filed the charge sheet in the case on April 30, 2012.
Sayedee, now in Kashimpur jail-1, has been convicted for life until death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
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