A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petition of Mia Nur Uddin Apu, personal secretary to exiled BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, in a bribery case.
Judge Basudev Roy of the Special Judge’s Court 3 passed the order and sent him to jail.
Absconding since January 11, 2007, Apu surrendered at a Dhaka court on June 18 this year and sought bail. According to media report, he used to live in Malaysia and London before that.
On October 4 of 2007, the case was filed by the ACC against seven people on charges of paying a bribe of Tk21 crore to former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar to drop the name of business tycoon Shah Alam’s son Sanvir from the charge of killing Humayun Kabir Sabbir, a director of Bashundhara Telecommunications Network Ltd. Sabbir was killed in a house, owned by Bashundhara Group, at Gulshan on July 5, 2006.
Apu surrendered to the court and sought bail in another case. But the court rejected his plea and sent him to jail. Then he was shown arrested in the ACC case.
