Palli Phone Case
Yunus, three Grameen staff get bail
A Pabna court yesterday granted bail to Dr Muhammad Yunus, former managing director of Grameen Bank (GB), and three officials in a case filed for sending bloated telephone bill to a Palli Phone, a Grameen Telecom initiative, subscriber.
The three officials are Mahbubur Rahman, manager of Pabna zonal office; Md Masud Reza, administrative officer of the zonal office; and Md Habibur Rahman, Ataikula branch manager of Grameen Bank.
Adv Md Abdul Matin, counsel of the four accused, placed petitions for bail and told the court that Dr Yunus has already received bail in the case from the High Court and submitted necessary documents.
"Showing respect to the High Court order, the court granted Dr Muhammad Yunus bail," said Matin, also the president of Pabna Bar Association.
The three other accused were granted bail on a bond of Tk 10,000.
During the hearing the officials were present at the court. A High Court lawyer appeared before the court on behalf of Prof Yunus, the country's lone Nobel Prize winner.
On February 15, Abdul Mazed, a former manager of Grameen Bank Ganguhati centre in Ataikula, filed the case with the Senior Judicial Court-3.
Mazed had complained that the Palli Phone authorities sent an abnormal bill of Tk 76,000 to Hafiza Begum, a subscriber of the phone.
The bank started pressing Mazed to clear the bill as the woman got the phone through him, he added. Mazed had to pay the money.
Mazed left the job last year and filed the case.
The court asked the accused to appear before the court yesterday.
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