The High Court today granted anticipatory bail for three months to former Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil in a tax evasion case. The HC bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Rais Uddin also issued a rule upon the government to explain why Jalil should not be granted regular bail in the case. The AL leader today appeared before the HC bench for bail.
Embattled ruling Awami League MP Abdul Jalil, against whom a Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant in a case on charges of income tax dodge on Thursday, is not willing to speak about the matter. Reached by bdnews24.com, he said he declined comments on the issue. An aide at his Gulshan residence, 'Kamrul' told bdnews24.com, when contacted in the evening: "He (Jalil) told him that he didn't want to speak right now."
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) today filed a case against Abdul Jalil, a veteran leader of the ruling Awami League, on charge of evading income tax. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court fixed 2:30pm for hearing the case.
Former general secretary of ruling Awami League (AL) Abdul Jalil MP has left his city's Gulshan residence for an unknown destination since a Dhaka court issued a warrant of arrest for him in a tax-evasion case on Thursday.
A Dhaka court has issued a warrant to arrest former Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil this afternoon in a tax evasion case. Judge ANM Bashirullah of the Senior Special Judge's Court passed the warrant for the ruling AL leader's arrest in line with a case filed by Deputy Tax Commissioner Bazlur Rahman Khan.
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury today said axing Abdul Jalil from the parliamentary standing committee did not come as punishment. "Abdul Jalil termed himself as 'mentally imbalanced," Sajeda told reports at a programme on the 25th death anniversary of Sheikh Moyezuddin, private television channel ATN Bangla reports.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday demanded investigation to find out whether a meeting between former general secretary of the Awami League (AL) Abdul Jalil and Tarique Rahman was held the Scotland Yard, in the UK. He made the demand while talking to reporters at the BNP's central office in Nayapaltan.
The ruling Awami League on Tuesday removed Abdul Jalil, who recently created controversy by making statements on the party and the 2008 general elections, from the post of chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the commerce ministry.
BNP Secretary General Khandakar Delwar Hossain yesterday said that the government termed Abdul Jalil, former general secretary of Awami League as 'mentally imbalanced' to cover their involvement in the conspiracy of January 11, 2007 and the election held on December 29, 2009.
The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, told her party colleagues on Saturday she would take action against the party’s former general secretary Abdul Jalil at an appropriate time, sources said. ‘I will take action against Jalil at an appropriate time,’ Hasina said at the maiden meeting of the party’s newly formed central working committee after many members demanded punishment of Jalil for his diatribe against the party leaders and casting aspersions on the validity of the last parliamentary elections.
