Bashundhara official jailed

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Shamsuddin Ahmed, a director of Bashundhara Group, to 30 days in jail for implicating the chairman of Jamuna Group and two others in a false case.
Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Zafar Mohammad Kamruzzaman declared the punishment and directed the officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Police Station to issue a conviction warrant.
Earlier, the accused submitted a written statement to the court's show-cause notice, but he was absent during the hearing on the notice.
On April 6, the same court issued a show-cause notice asking Shamsuddin Ahmed to explain within seven days why he had filed a false case against Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul, his son Shamim Islam and son-in-law SM Wadud.
Shamsuddin filed the case against the three with Badda Police Station on August 16, 2006 alleging them of abducting Zahid Hossain, a security guard of Bashundhara Group, on August 15, 2006.
Shamsuddin said two locals, Shamsul Haque and Salauddin, saw Zahid while he was being abducted from Pragati Sarani adjacent to Bishwa Road.
They abducted Zahid with an intention to kill him as he was the sole witness of a case filed against them, Shamsuddin alleged.
However, the investigator later found that Zahid was out of the capital during filing of the case and returned to Dhaka on August 27, 2006, the court observed.
Sub-Inspector Sohrab Hossain pressed charges against Babul and two others on July 15, 2007.