Case Explained: Court orders Interpol red notice for Tulip Siddiq in Gulshan flat case – Legal Perspective

A special court today ordered the relevant authorities to issue a red notice through Interpol for the arrest of British MP Tulip Siddiq, niece of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed over acquiring a flat in Gulshan-2 illegally by providing undue benefits to a private developer.

Judge Md Sabbir Faiz of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka passed the order following an application filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Assistant Director AKM Motuza Ali Sagar, said court bench assistant Riaz Hossain.

On February 18, the court issued arrest warrants against Tulip, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London, and Rajuk’s former assistant legal adviser Sardar Mosharraf Hossain after accepting the charge sheet in the case.

The court also set March 8 for submitting a report on the execution of the arrest warrants.

On April 15 last year, the anti-graft body filed the case against Tulip, Mosharraf and Rajuk’s former assistant legal adviser Shah Md Khasruzzaman for allegedly illegally acquiring the flat from Eastern Housing Limited.

According to the case documents, the accused allegedly, in collusion with each other, abused their power and illegally took possession of a flat in Eastern Housing’s Gulshan-2 project without paying any money, and later got it registered.

The ACC on January 13 this year filed the charge sheet against Tulip and Mosharraf.

Between November 27 last year and February 2 this year, Sheikh Hasina was jailed for 36 years in six cases involving the Purbachal plot scam in Dhaka. Her elder niece, Tulip, was also sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in three of the six cases.