DHAKA, May 25, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today 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 total
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.