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Dhaka: Bangladesh court on Thursday issued a fresh arrest warrant against 18 people, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul, in a case filed on allegations of corruption in a plot allotment under the Purbachal New Town project, reports said.
Dhaka City senior special judge, Zakir Hossain, issued the order on Thursday taking into cognisance the chargesheet filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The court ordered the submission of a progress report on the execution of the arrest warrant on May 5.
In another case of corruption in plot allotment, a chargesheet has been filed against 23 people, including Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, and four other members of their family, Bangladesh’s leading daily Prothom Alo reported, citing sources at the Dhaka court.
The former PM has been accused in a total of six cases on allegations of irregularities in plot allocation under the Purbachal New Town project.
Last month, a tribunal of Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant against Hasina and four others, including former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, on alleged mass killing at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka in 2013.
In January, a special tribunal in Dhaka ordered an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Hasina and 11 other people over incidents of enforced disappearances.
Ironically, the tribunal was established by the government led by Sheikh Hasina under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act to provide for the detection, prosecution and punishment of persons responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under International Law committed by the Pakistani Army, with the help of their local collaborators, in the territory of Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.
