The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka recently granted bail to JKG Healthcare Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury in the case filed against her on charge of possessing two National ID cards with fake information.
Judge KM Imrul Kayesh of Court passed the bail order after hearing on Sabrina’s bail petition. The accused Dr Sabrina is a suspended physician of National Institute of Cardio-Vascular Disease (NICVD).
General Registration Officer (GRO) of Police SI Mazharul Islam of Badda
Police Station confirmed the information yesterday (Sunday).
Earlier, on September 3, Dr Sabrina was put on the 2-day remand in the case.
On August 30, Gulshan Thana Election Officer Abdul Momin Mia filed the case against Dr Sabrina with Badda Police Station.
According to the case statement and EC’s NID Division, detained Sabrina who was allegedly involved with Covid-19 test report forgery, became a voter for the first time in 2009.
At that time, she used Mohammadpur as her current and permanent address. Then she mentioned December 2, 1978 as her date of birth.
She mentioned her husband’s name as ‘Haque’ and educational qualification post-graduation.
But in her second NID issued in 2016, she mentioned Badda as her permanent and current address and her husband’s name as ‘Ariful Chowdhury’. In that ID, she used December 2, 1983 as her date of birth.
She also changed her mother’s name, as well as educational qualifications, declaring herself to be a graduate. According to Voter Talika of 2009, acquiring dual NID is a punishable offence. The minimum punishment is two years’ imprisonment or fine, or both.
