Staff Reporter :
Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir who is the main accused in a case filed on charge of abetting suicide of a young girl whose body was recovered from a rented flat in Dhaka’s Gulshan area at Monday night, seeks anticipatory bail from the High Court on Wednesday.
His bail petition is mentioned in the cause-list of the HC Bench of Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman as item No 14. The cause-list is scheduled to be heard on Thursday.
Earlier a Dhaka court on Tuesday issued a travel ban on Sayem Sobhan Anvir in connection with the case.
Judge of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka, Md Shahidul Islam, passed the order after holding hearing on a petition filed by police seeking travel ban on Sayem.
Abul Hassan, Officer-in-Charge of Gulshan Police Station and also the Investigation Officer of the case, confirmed the news.
The OC said, “I placed a petition seeking travel ban on Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir. The court granted the petition.”
Earlier the IO submitted a petition to the court seeking travel ban on Sayem. In the petition, the IO said following the case, there is a chance that Sayem might leave the country to avoid arrest.
Police recovered the body of a young girl from a rented flat in Dhaka’s Gulshan area at Monday night. The deceased was a college student, hailing from Cumilla. She lived in the flat alone, police said.
The victim’s sister filed the case with Gulshan Police Station early on Tuesday against Sayem Sobhan. In the case statement, charges of abetting suicide were brought against the businessman.
