A Dhaka court yesterday ordered court officials to publish a newspaper notice asking BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three members of her family to appear in the Dandy Dyeing loan default case by May 17.
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.
Dhaka Artha Rin Adalat 1 (money loan court) Judge Fatema Ferdous passed the order.
The court ordered to publish the notice in two Bangla dailies - Kaler Kantho and Inqilab.
The order was given in response to a petition filed by state-owned Sonali Bank’s counsel Md Jahangir Alam. He filed the petition as the previous summons order issued against the defendants was not received by them and returned to the court.
On March 16, the court granted a Sonali Bank petition to include the four as defendants in the case on behalf of Koko, one of the directors of Dandy Dyeing, who died on January 24.
Following Koko’s death in Malaysia, the Sonali Bank lawyer filed the petition on March 8.
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, filed a 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.
