DOT Desk: The High Court yesterday again summoned Jamuna Bank’s Managing Director Shafiqul Alam to appear before it on February 12 for not complying with its 2017 directive regarding non-payment of Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) money of Tk 51 lakh, reports The Daily Star.
The court also ordered the officer-in-charge of Motijheel Police Station to arrest and produce Shafiqul before it if he does not appear on his own on February 12. The bench of Justice Mamnoon Rahman and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das on January 22 had ordered Shafiqul to appear before it yesterday.
But, Shafiqul’s lawyer Advocate Habibul Islam Bhuiyan today told the HC that his client could not appear before the court on the date as he is now in abroad on an official tour.
The HC on January 22 passed the summons order following a petition filed by AIM Hasanul Mujib, a businessman. Mujib had presented an FDR made by one Talebur Rahman at the bank’s Nawabpur branch as Mudaraba Term Deposit in 2005.
The deposit matured after five years.
Rahman gave the power of attorney to Mujib for drawing the FDR money from the bank, according to the petitioner’s counsel Barrister ABM Altaf Hossain.
Since Jamuna did not release the FDR money to Mujib, he knocked on the doors of the Bangladesh Bank but in vain.
He then filed a writ petition with the HC against the authorities concerned of the BB and Jamuna.
Subsequently, the HC on February 12, 2017, directed Jamuna to pay Tk 51 lakh to Mujib against the FDR in 30 days.
The Supreme Court’s Appellate Division also upheld the HC verdict, but the bank did not give the money to Mujib.
The HC on January 24 last year issued a contempt of court rule against the BB governor, the finance secretary, the Jamuna’s MD and three others for not complying with its directive.
This is a blatant violation of the court order and contempt of court, Barrister Altaf Hossain said.
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