A Bangladesh court on Sunday issued arrest warrants against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and 50 others. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain passed the order after considering three separate charge sheets filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
He has been accused of illegally acquiring land by misusing political power. The judge has set April 27 as the date for reviewing the report on the execution of arrest orders. Citing court sources, Bengali newspaper Prothom Alo reported that the ACC recently filed chargesheets in the court against 53 people in three separate cases of corruption in plot allotment.
Since all 53 accused, including Hasina, were absconding, the court issued arrest warrants against them, the paper said. On April 10, the same court had issued arrest warrants against Hasina, her daughter Saima Wazed and 17 others in a separate corruption case related to Rajuk plot allotments.