Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Thursday allowed controversial e-commerce platform Evaly’s former Chairman Shamima Narsin and its former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Rassel to transfer 50 per cent of their shares to three family members for running the company.
The three members are Shamima Nasrin’s father Rafiqul Alam Talukder, her mother Farida Talukder Lily and her sister’s husband Md Mamunur Rashid.
The DIG (prisons) has been directed to extend necessary cooperation in completing the process for transferring the shares of Shamima and Rassel, as both of them are now behind the bars.
The High Court Bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order after hearing an application filed by Rafiqul, Farida and Mamunur saying that they are interested to take over the responsibility of the company for its revival.
In the application, they prayed to the HC to allow Shamima and Rassel to transfer some of their shares of the company to their accounts this purpose.
In the order passed on Thursday, the HC said Rafiqul, Farida and Mamunur cannot transfer or sell any share to any other person after receiving the shares from Nasrin and Russel.
The court said also that the court-appointed Board of Directors of the Evaly would determine the role of Rafiqul, Farida and Mamunur in operating the company. The family members shall extend their all-out cooperation to the auditor appointed by the court-appointed Board of Directors to carry out its audit works.
The court directed former executive director of the Evaly Ehsan Sarwar Chowdhury to extend his all-out cooperation to the auditor appointed by the court-appointed Board of directors to carry out its audit work, as promised by him in the court at the time of his personal appearance earlier.
The court also summoned Sheikh Salauddin, owner of the house where the Evaly’s office is located, to appear in person in the court on February 24 in 2022, failing which the law enforcing agencies shall be directed to arrest him and produce before the court.
Shamima and Russel hold 80 per cent and 20 percent shares of Evaly respectively, said lawyer Tapas Kanti Baul who appeared in the court on behalf of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms.
Earlier on February 7, the same court asked fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters in laws of ex-CEO Russel and ex-chairman Nasrin to show cause within two weeks as to why all types of bank accounts of the fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters in laws of ex-CEO Russel and ex-chairman Nasrin shall not be frozen.
Following a petition filed by a customer the same High Court Bench on September 22 in 2021 directed the concerned bodies to be restrained from selling, transferring or otherwise dispose of the assets of the Evaly till disposal of the case filed with the High Court.
Later the court on October 18 in 2021 formed a 5-member body to oversee the overall management and the company affairs of the Evaly Limited.
The court appointed Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a former judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, as the chairman of the company and Mahbub Kabir Milon, an Additional Secretary of the government, the ex officio Managing Director.
Lawyers Shamim Ahmed Mehedi appeared in the court on behalf of the petitioners, while Tapas Kanti Baul appeared for the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms and Syed Mahsib Hossain represented the customers.
