A Dhaka court has ordered its staff to publish an advertisement asking BNP chief Khaleda Zia and three members of her family to appear before it by May 17 in the Dandy Dyeing loan default case.
Money Loan Court 1 Judge Fatema Ferdous passed the order on Sunday in response to a petition filed seeking the publishing of an advertisement asking the defendants to appear before the court.
State-owned Sonali Bank panel lawyer Mohammad Jahangir Alam filed the petition as the summon order issued against the defendants returned to the court.
The court ordered the staff to publish the advertisements in national Bangla dailies Kaler Kantha and Inqilab.
The three are Khaleda’s son late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife Sharmila Rahman Sithi and her daughters Zafia Rahman and Zahia Rahman, who are now in Malaysia.
On March 16, the same court granted a Sonali Bank prayer for including Khaleda, Sithi and the two girls as defendants.
The other defendants in the case are Dandy Dyeing directors Tarique Rahman, Khaleda’s eldest son, Giasuddin Al Mamun, his wife Shahina Begum, Nasrin Iskander, wife of late Sayeed Iskander, his sons Shams Iskander and Shafin Iskander and daughter Sumaiya Iskander, Gazi Galib Abdus Sattar, Shamsun Nahar and Masud Hassan.
According to the case documents, on October 2, 2012, Nazrul Islam, senior executive officer of Sonali Bank Ltd, filed a money suit with the court as the defendants failed to repay the loan amounting to Tk45.59 crore.
Dandy Dyeing borrowed Tk12.16 crore from the bank’s principal office in Dhaka on October 16, 2001, the case statement said.
