- DHAKA — Bangladesh court on Sunday issued arrest warrants against 51
people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and her sister Sheikh
Rehana, in three separate cases filed over irregularities in plot allocation in
the Purbachal New Town project.
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- The local media reported that the court also issued arrest
warrants against Sheikh Rehana’s children, Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, Azmina
Siddiq, and UK Member of Parliament Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, in separate cases in
the plot allocation case.
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- The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge of Dhaka, Zakir
Hossain Galib, passed the order after taking into cognisance of the charge
sheets submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
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- The local media report said that the court has directed the
submission of a progress report on the execution of the arrest by April 27.
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- Earlier this week, the same Dhaka court issued an arrest
warrant against 18 people, including Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed
Putul, in a case filed on allegations of corruption in a plot allotment under
the same project.
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- The former Prime Minister has been accused in a total of six
cases on allegations of irregularities in plot allocation under the Purbachal
New Town project.
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- Meanwhile, a tribunal of Bangladesh has also issued an
arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina and four others, including former
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, on alleged mass killing at
Shapla Chattar in Dhaka in 2013.
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- In January, a special tribunal in Dhaka issued an arrest
warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 11 other people over
incidents of enforced disappearances.
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- Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, had to flee the country in an ignominious manner and seek
refuge in India on August 5.
