Samrat sent to jail again
Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, expelled Juba League leader, was sent to jail again by a Dhaka court on Tuesday.
Samrat had surrendered before the Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-6 on Tuesday in a case of acquiring assets beyond his known sources of income. He had appealed for bail; but the court denied his bail plea.
He was initially granted bail in the case for amassing wealth illegally on May 11 by Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-6 Judge Al Asad Mohammad Asifuzzaman.
Among the four cases against him, Samrat secured bail in a money laundering case and an arms case on April 10. On April 11 he was granted bail in a narcotics case.
He was released from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital on May 11 after getting bail in all the four cases.
Later on May 16, the Anti-Corruption Commission appealed to the High Court to cancel the bail order in a case filed by the commission in 2019.
On 18 May, the two-member High Court bench led by Md Nazrul Islam Talukder cancelled his bail and ordered him to surrender at the special judge's court within seven days.
Samrat appealed to the appellate division for staying the High Court order.
After hearing the appeal on May 23, the appellate division chamber judge, M Enayetur Rahim, sent Samrat’s application to the regular bench of the appellate division for holding a hearing on May 30.
On November 12, 2019, ACC deputy director Md Jahangir Alam started the case of illegally amassing Tk 2.95 crore worth of wealth. Following an investigation, Md Jahangir Alam filed the charge sheet on 26 November 2020.
On October 6, 2019, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Samrat in Cumilla over his alleged ties with gambling racket.
The RAB later raided Samrat’s office in Kakrail's Bhuiyan Trade Centre and recovered a foreign pistol, Yaba tablets, bottles of foreign liquor and two kangaroo hides.
A mobile court sentenced Samrat to six-month prison for possessing the kangaroo hides under the Wild Animal Protection Act and he was later sent to the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.
Later, two more cases were filed against him under the Narcotics Control Act and Arms Act with the Ramna police station.
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