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Download PDF A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 11 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders and activists arrested for preventing participants from bidding in a tender at the Construction Maintenance Management Unit (CMMU) of the health ministry on July 30.
The court also rejected bail petitions of nine arrestees submitted by their lawyers on August 23 saying that they were arrested on the spot red-handed.
The accused are Imtiazur Rahman Prokash, Sahabur Rahman, Humayun Kabir, Mafizur Rahman, F Kabir Khan Shilpi, Sajjad Hossain Robin, Shariful Islam Sabuj, Majedul Islam, Abu Bakar Siddiqui, Asaduzzaman Asad and AKM Azad Swadhin (obtained bail from the High court).
Of them, Asad is still at large and will be tried in absentia.
All the accused, excepting Asad, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice before the court after Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali Reza of Speedy Trial Court-6 read out the charges to them.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on August 10 pressed charges against 11 JCD leaders and activists and the court accepted the charge sheet on August 13.
The investigation officer (IO) dropped names of four others as their names and addresses, given by four accused in their confessional statements, were not correct.
They told a metropolitan magistrate on August 6 that Shaikot and Asad, two JCD leaders of Fazlul Haq Muslim Hall of Dhaka University, engaged them to obstruct buying and dropping of tender schedules for jobs worth around Tk 400 crore.
The last date for buying the schedules for the three projects under the development budget was August 1, while the next day was the deadline for dropping the tender schedules, which were being sold at 36 places across the country, sources said.
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