Staff Reporter:
A Dhaka court yesterday set June 17 for submitting reports on executing its orders to arrest 100 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in six cases lodged over irregularities in allocating
plots in the RAJUK Purbachal New Town Project.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order as police failed to submit the reports today, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) public prosecutor (PP) Mahmud Hossain Jahangir told BSS.
Earlier, the same court on April 15 issued arrest warrants against 29 people in two separate cases filed by the ACC regarding a scam in allocating plots in Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Purbachal New Town Project.
ACC Deputy Director Md Salahuddin filed one case against eight, including Sheikh Hasina, on January 14 for abusing power in allocating a 10-katha plot in the Purbachal New Town Project. Investigation Officer and ACC Assistant Director Afnan Jannat Keya on March 10 filed the charge sheet against a to-tal
of 12.
Meanwhile, ACC Assistant Director SM Rashedul Hasan filed the other case against 15, including Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, in this connection. He filed the charge sheet against 17 people on March 10.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib on April 13, 2025, issued warrants to arrest 53 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq in cases filed over a scam in allocating plot in RAJUK Purbachal New Town Project.
The ACC on January 13, 2025, filed another case against 15 people including Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and daughters– Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq– on charges of abusing power to obtain plots from RAJUK.
The ACC later filed a charge-sheet against 17.
The anti-graft body on the same day filed another case against 16 including Sheikh Hasina, Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq. Later, the ACC filed a charge-sheet against 18.
It also filed another case against Radwan Mujib Siddiq and 15 others on January 13. The anti-graft body later filed a charge-sheet against 18.
