HC refuses to grant bail to Bashundhara MD, allows wife’s plea

 

Live Correspondent: The High Court on Wednesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Bashundhara Group managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, observing that there are specific allegations against him.

Sayem surrendered in the court of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar in the case filed against him and seven others allegedly for murdering college student Mosarat Jahan Munia after rape.

The bench observed that the postmortem examination found three injures on Munia’s body. The bench, however, granted anticipatory bail for six weeks to his wife Sabrina, who is also an accused in the case.

The Gulshan police on April 26 recovered the body of Mosarat, an orphan girl, hanging from a ceiling fan in a rented apartment at house no 19, Road no 120, Gulshan-2, in Dhaka.

On August 31, Mosarat’s eldest sister Nusrat Jahan filed a complaint with the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 against Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, his son Sayem, Sayem’s wife, and five others for their alleged involvement in raping and killing of Mosarat.

Sayem’s mother Afroza Sobhan, Faria Mahabub Piyasha, now in jail, Saifa Rahman Mim and Gulshan flat owner Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon and his wife Sharmim Akhter were also made accused in the case.

After hearing the petition, the tribunal’s judge Mafroza Parveen directed the officer-in-charge of the Gulshan police to treat the complaint as a first information report and send the case to the chief of Police Bureau of Investigation for taking steps to probe into the complaint.

Nusrat in the case statement accused Sayem of raping Mosarat on assurance of marrying her but later he, in connivance with other accused, murdered her.

Nusrat in the case statement alleged that Sayem took Mosarat to a house at Banani in Dhaka from her college hostel in June 2019 and raped her there for seven to eight months in the name of marrying her.  Sayem paid Tk 65,000 as monthly rent for the house.

As the matter was spread, the family of Sayem later called Mosarat to their house with the help of Piyasha and asked Mosarat to leave Dhaka or threatened her to kill, said the case statement.

In April 2020, Sayem requested Mosarat to stay with her sister in Cumilla with the promise of marriage and on March 1, 2021, he brought her to Dhaka and rented a flat for her at Gulshan at Tk 1,30,000 a month promising her to marry, according to the statement.

Citing a medical report, the complainant said that Mosarat later got pregnant and carried a fetus of seven to eight months.

Recovering Mosarat’s body on April 26, police recorded an unnatural death case but it later recorded a case filed by Nusrat against Bashundhara MD Sayem on charges of abetting the ‘suicide’ of the college student.

The police in July submitted a final report with a recommendation for clearing Sayem and others of the charges.

Nusrat on August 31 filed a fresh complaint against Sayem and the seven people with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal after the magistrate on August 8 rejected Nusrat’s petition objecting to the final report.

Dhaka, 29 September (campuslive24.com)//BIT

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