Wife Brings Fraud Charge

<i>Acting mayor on the run to evade arrest</i>

4 July 2009, 17:00 PM

A Correspondent, Cox's Bazar

Cox's Bazar Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court has issued arrest warrant against acting mayor of Cox's Bazar municipality Sarwar Kamal in a fraud case filed by his second wife. Police, however, could not arrest the acting mayor despite several raids in the town yesterday. Sarwar Kamal married Roksana Parveen of Tekpara in the town on April 29, 2005 as his second wife. Roksana Parveen said after two months of the marriage her husband Sarwar borrowed Tk 13 lakh from her saying he would use the money in business. An agreement was also signed in this regard. But as Sarwar did not return the money after two years, a feud arose between them. Roksana alleged that at one stage he started physical torture on her. Roksana filed a fraud case against Sarwar with Cox's Bazar Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court on July 26, 2007. Sarwar took anticipatory bail in the case but did not appear before the court later. As he did not appear before the court on July 2 as per schedule, the court issued arrest warrant against him, said advocate Mostafa Kamal who stood for the plaintiff. “My divorced wife Roksana filed a false case against me to tarnish my social reputation and to harass me,” Sarwar Kamal said.