Samrat freed on bail, to stay at BSMMU hospital

 

Live Correspondent: Expelled Dhaka City (South) Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat has been freed after receiving bails in all the cases against him.
He was freed from jail "in accordance with" all the process at about 4:30pm on Wednesday.

However, he will stay at the BSMMU hospital for some days as he he is undergoing treatment there. Judge Al Asad Md Asifuzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 granted him the bail on Wednesday.

Dhaka Central Jail's jailor Md Mahabubul Islam also confirmed it. However, family sources said Samrat would not be able to return home though he was was freed from jail. He will stay some more days at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.

Earlier, the same court turned down his bail plea in the corruption case, filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), twice -- on April 28 and April 13.

Samrat has already secured bail in three other cases. So, there is no legal bar for his release now. Samrat secured bail in a drugs case on April 11 and in an Arms Act case and a money laundering case on April 10.

The expelled Jubo League leader has been undergoing treatment at BSMMU Hospital since November 24 last year. The Dhaka Central Jail authorities have made all the arrangements of his release from the BSMMU Hospital. The bail order of Samrat was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail  from the court. Then the jail authorities sent necessary documents to the BSMMU Hospital authorities. Then Samrat was released from there.

On October 6 in 2019, RAB detained Samrat and his associate Enamul Huque Arman from Chowddagram in Cumilla district. RAB raided his Kakrail office later that day. Huge quantities of foreign liquor, pistols, and two hides of kangaroo were seized from his office.

He was later sentenced by a mobile court to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act. On October 7, Abdul Khaleque, deputy assistant director of RAB-1 lodged two complaints against Samrat at Ramna Police Station under the Arms and the Narcotics Act. Arman was also made an accused in the narcotics case.

On November 4, Shekhar Chandra Mallik, a sub-inspector, submitted a chargesheet against Samrat in the Arms Act case. On November 12, ACC lodged a complaint against him for acquiring assets worth Tk 2.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.

On September 12, 2020, Rashedur Rahman, sub-inspector of CID, registered a case against him at the Ramna police station for laundering Tk 195 crore to Malaysia and Singapore. Lastly, on November 26 last year, the investigating officer in the case, Jahangir Alam, submitted a chargesheet in the court.

Dhaka, 11 May, (campuslive24.com)//BSC

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