Hearing on charge framing against Sayedee adjourned
A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned till April 25 the hearing on charge framing against detained Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee in connection with a tax evasion case.
Judge Mohammad Mozammel Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3 passed the order after Sayedee's lawyer submitted a petition seeking an adjournment of the hearing.
Sayedee was produced before the court during the yesterday's hearing. In the petition, lawyer Abdur Razzak said they had earlier filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the case.
After the hearing, the HC issued a rule upon the government to explain within four weeks why the proceedings of the case should not be declared illegal. But the hearing on the rule is now pending for hearing. So they prayed for adjournment of the hearing, said the lawyer.
On August 19 last year Deputy Tax Commissioner of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), Masuma Kahtun, filed the case against the Jamaat leader on charge of dodging income tax amounting to Tk 56.45 lakh for the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2009-2010.
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