The Crime Desk: The High Court did not grant anticipatory bail to Fatikchhari Abu Ahmed alias Abur (49), accused of gold smuggling, after he was brought to court by the petitioner. The bench consisting of Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat gave this order on its own initiative. The High Court asked to send him to jail. He was immediately handed over to Shahbagh police station. Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik confirmed the matter.
Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik was in the hearing of the state side in the court today. Defendant was lawyer SM Abul Hossain and Md. Habibur Rahman. And lawyer Shaheen Ahmed for the ACC. After the hearing, the High Court handed over Abu Ahmed alias Abu to Shahbag police station. On March 18, 2020, a case was filed against 20 people including Abu Ahmed alias Abu, son of Faiz Ahmed alias Bali Saudagar of Japatnagar area of Fatikchari. The case was made by CID sub-inspector. Haroon ur Rashid.
According to the statement of the case, the defendants conspired as various banks to commit hundi (money laundering), gold smuggling, theft and other illegal trade of 204 crore 37 lakh 45 thousand 887 taka and withdraw 240 crore 5 lakh 12 thousand 160 taka for money laundering i.e. Abu has become the owner of huge wealth through transfer, transfer and conversion
Apart from this, he has become the owner of land and houses in Panchlaish, Chandgao, Fatehnagar, Raujan, Fatikchhari. It has 2/3 stores in Dubai. There are also cases of gold smuggling against Abu in different police stations. Abu Ahmed sought anticipatory bail in the High Court on February 7 last year in this case. The High Court ordered him to surrender before the concerned lower court within three weeks without granting bail. After the order, on 22 February, Abu Ahmed surrendered and applied for bail.
On that day, the Senior Special Judge Court of Chittagong summoned the case documents and kept the application for hearing on May 5. But Chittagong’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate held the bail application hearing on July 13 as the documents did not come from the court. As the documents did not come even on that date, the court asked them to produce the documents on August 31 and fixed the date of hearing the bail application on September 5. The hearing of the bail application was delayed several more times due to Abu Ahmed’s timely application despite the documents coming later. On November 13, on the hearing of the bail application, when Abu Ahmed applied for time again, the court did not grant it and issued an arrest warrant against him.
According to the order of the special court, the accused has been applying for time without hearing the bail for the last nine months. which is motivated and constitutes contempt of the order of the High Court. Then the accused Abu Ahmed appeared in the High Court and asked for anticipatory bail. After hearing the anticipatory bail application on December 5, the court fixed December 6 for the order.
But on December 6, the accused did not appear. At this stage, the court expressed its anger towards the lawyer Faria bint Alam when Abu Ahmed’s lawyer wanted to dismiss the anticipatory bail application as ‘not pressed’. And arrested the accused and banned him from leaving the country without doing the press. Besides, he directed the law and order forces to arrest him immediately at any cost and produce him in the proper court. The High Court summoned the advocate of this case the next day.
On December 12, lobbyist Noor Mohammad tendered an unconditional apology after appearing on the summons. He directed the prosecutor to produce the accused before the court. The court issued a ruling against Abu Ahmed alias Abu for disobeying the order of the High Court. He ordered Chittagong Superintendent of Police to file a report regarding his arrest. Fixed January 8 for next order. Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik said that when the lobbyist Abu was produced today, he was handed over to Shahbag police.
