Money laundering case: Former NSU trustee gets conditional bail
The High Court today granted conditional bail to Md Shahjahan, a former member of North South University's trustee board, in a Tk 304 crore money laundering case.
According to the conditions, Shahjahan cannot enter NSU premises and cannot leave the country without permission from the court concerned.
The HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus Zaman and Justice Fahmida Quader granted his bail after hearing a petition filed by accused Shahjahan seeking bail in the case.
Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that they would appeal before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court challenging the HC bail order.
The HC granted Shahjahan's bail considering his old age.
Senior lawyer Sayeed Ahmed Raza and lawyer Shah Monjurul Hoque appeared for Shahjahan during hearing of the bail petition.
On May 22, this year, the HC bench led by Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder rejected anticipatory bail petitions filed by the then four members of NSU trustee board in the same case and ordered Shahbagh Police Station to arrest them immediately.
Accordingly, the four accused -- MA Kashem, Benajir Ahmed, Rehana Rahman and Mohammed Shajahan -- were produced before the trial court on May 23.
The court sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers.
On May 5, 2022, ACC Deputy Director Farid Ahmed Patwary filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka against the four accused and also NSU Board of Trustees Chairperson Azim Uddin Ahmed. Ashaloy Housing and Developers Managing Director Amin Md Hilaly was also made accused in the case.
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