Case Explained: Gulshan flat case: Issue Interpol red notice for Tulip – Legal Perspective

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the relevant authorities to have a red notice issued through Interpol for the arrest of British MP Tulip Siddiq, niece of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case over alleged corruption in acquiring a flat.

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 Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha’s (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.

Tulip allegedly provided undue benefits to private developer Eastern Housing Limited to illegally acquire the flat in Gulshan-2.

According to the case documents, the accused allegedly, in collusion with each other, abused their power and illegally took possession of the flat without paying any money, and later got it registered.

The ACC on January 13 this year pressed charges 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.