Bail sought for Mirza Abbas, Pintu, Akhtar
Hearing on Mar 21, Apr 9
Court Correspondent
The lawyers of detained former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas, ex-lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and former power secretary ANH Akhtar Hossain yesterday sought bails for their clients from a Dhaka court.Judge Mohammad Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court fixed March 21 and April 9 for hearing on the issue following four separate criminal appeals filed by the lawyers against the rejection orders of the lower courts on different dates. On February 15, Metropolitan Magistrate Quamrunnahar rejected Pintu's bail petitions and ordered to send him to Dhaka Central Jail in connection with two cases filed with Hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar police stations on different dates. On the other hand, Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Alam rejected Abbas' bail petition in connection with the case filed against him for possessing illegal local and foreign currencies and sent him to jail on February 26. Akhtar was implicated in the case filed for making a huge amount of money through corruption and was sent to jail after he was produced before the court with a proposal for a month's detention from the home ministry the same day. PINTU'S CASES
Kabir Hossain, a BNP worker of Baragram in Kamrangirchar, filed an attempted murder case with the chief metropolitan magistrate's court on January 25 against Pintu after local police refused to record his complaint. Shahidul Islam, another resident of Munshihati in Kamrangirchar, filed a theft case against Pintu on February 13. ABBAS'S CASE
The joint forces seized a huge sum of local and foreign currencies and other items from Mirza Abbas' South Shahjahanpur house in the capital on February 4. Motijheel police filed a case against him under the Special Powers Act, Money Laundering Act and Excise Act on February 24. The seized items include sales slips for gold ornaments worth Tk 40 lakh, 4,600 US dollars, 17,000 Thai bahts, 418 Singapore dollars, 432 Malaysian ringgits, several mobile phone sets and five passports. Complainant of the case Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam alleged that Abbas had kept those in his possession evading a huge amount of taxes. AKHTAR'S CASE
The forwarding report placed before the court alleged that Akhtar misappropriated a huge amount of money when he was the power secretary.
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