Babar's Tax Evasion
Hearing adjourned 15 times
A Dhaka court yesterday deferred the hearing till October 27 on charge framing against detained former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar in a case filed for dodging income tax of Tk 2.65 crore from 1999-2000 to 2008-09 fiscal years.
With this, the court had adjourned the hearing for 15 times on different excuses submitted from the defence.
Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Special Judge's Court-5 passed the order following a petition submitted by defence lawyer seeking an adjournment of the hearing.
Babar was produced before the court during the hearing.
Babar's lawyer told the court that they had earlier filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the case. But the hearing on the writ petition is still pending.
The prosecution opposed it and prayed for framing charge against the accused as there was no stay order on the proceeding of the case.
Deputy Tax Commissioner Syed Zakir Hossain of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) filed the case on February 14 last year against Babar, now in police custody on various criminal charges.
NBR, in its case statement, mentioned that Babar, director of Master Electronics Industries Limited, evaded Tk 2,65,44,122 in income tax on his income of Tk 8,06,80,122 from his firm for the fiscal years 1999-2000 to 2008-2009.
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