Staff Reporter :The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a High Court order that had granted bail to Nur Mohammad, owner of “Khan Jahan Ali Limited”, accused in the case filed in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittgong Port. Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddiqui passed the order upon a petition filed by the government. The next date for the hearing of the case was fixed on July 14. Customs Intelligence on June last year found a suspicious container at Chittagong Port that had 107 barrels of sunflower oil and later liquid cocaine was detected in the sample of barrel no.96. Existence of liquid cocaine was found in barrels of edible oil, seized from the container, after their contents were retested in two laboratories in Dhaka. The container was imported from Bolivia in the name of Khan Jahan Ali Limited of Chittagong. As per the import documents, the consignment was that of sunflower oil arrived at Chittagong Port on May 8 from Bolivia via Uruguay and Singapore. The accused are importing firm Khan Jahan Ali Ltd’s Chairman Nur Mohammad and its employee ‘Sohel’, who was arrested after the seizure of the drug. Laboratory tests on the liquid samples from the consignment detected cocaine in two of the drums each having 185 kg of oil which was imported in the name of Bolivian sunflower oil.
