Iqbalur Rahim, Bahauddin Nasim relieved
A Dhaka court yesterday relieved Awami League (AL) lawmaker Iqbalur Rahim, Swechchhasebok League President AFM Baha-uddin Nasim and three others of a Tk 1 crore extortion case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mominul Hassan passed the order after the investigating officer (IO) of the case Sub-Inspector Nasim Uddin of Shah-bagh police submitted final report finding the charges brought against them false.
The three others are AL Assistant Secretary and former student leader Shafi Ahmed, and former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders Shah Alam and SM Kamal.
The anti-crime taskforce members on July 31 in 2007 arrested former BCL general secretary Iqbalur Rahim from the city's Shegunbagicha area after MM Qalid Mirza, managing director of MRG Ltd, filed an extortion case against them.
The taskforce arrested Rahim as he came out of the Anti-Corruption Commission office at Shegunbagicha after submitting his wealth statement.
In the case statement, the complainant mentioned that the accused forced him to provide them Tk 1 crore in return for a Tk 4.51 crore tender they won for him for supplying metres and other equipment to Desa in 2001.
Qalid Mirza, director of the power generation equipment supply company, mentioned in the FIR (first information report) that he gave the amount in cash and cheques on different dates.
He also alleged that the accused threatened him of dire consequence and compelled him to give the money.
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