Samrat freed on bail, will stay at BSMMU Hospital
PBC News: Expelled Dhaka City (South) Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat has been freed after receiving bails in all the cases against him.
Judge Al Asad Md Asifuzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 granted him the bail on Wednesday.
Samrat was released from jail “in accordance with” all the existing process at about 4:30pm on Wednesday.
Though Samrat has been released on bail, he remains under treatment at the CCU of BSMMU hospital’s prison cell, said Dhaka City (South) Jubo League joint general secretary Maksudur Rahman.
Dhaka Central Jail’s jailor Md Mahabubul Islam also confirmed it.
However, family sources said Samrat would not return home though he was released on Wednesday afternoon. He will stay some more days at the BSMMU Hospital’s prison cell.
Earlier, the same court turned down his bail plea in the corruption case, filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), twice — on April 28 and April 13.
Samrat has already secured bail in three other cases. So, there is no legal bar for his release now.
Samrat secured bail in a drugs case on April 11 and in an Arms Act case and a money laundering case on April 10.
The expelled Jubo League leader has been undergoing treatment at BSMMU Hospital since November 24 last year. The Dhaka Central Jail authorities have made all the arrangements of his release from the BSMMU. The bail order of Samrat was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail from court. Then the jail authorities sent necessary documents to the BSMMU authorities. Then he was released from there.
On October 6 in 2019, RAB detained Samrat and his associate Enamul Haque Arman from Chauddagram in Cumilla.
RAB raided his Kakrail office later that day. Huge quantities of foreign liquor, pistols, and two hides of kangaroo were seized from his office.
He was later sentenced by a mobile court to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act.
On October 7, Abdul Khaleque, deputy assistant director of RAB-1 lodged two complaints against Samrat at Ramna Police Station under the Arms and the Narcotics Act. Arman was also made an accused in the narcotics case.
On November 4, Shekhar Chandra Mallik, a sub-inspector, submitted a chargesheet against Samrat in the Arms Act case.
On November 12, ACC lodged a complaint against him for acquiring assets worth Tk 2.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.
On September 12, 2020, Rashedur Rahman, sub-inspector of CID, registered a case against him at the Ramna police station for laundering Tk 195 crore to Malaysia and Singapore.
Lastly, on November 26 last year, the investigating officer in the case, Jahangir Alam, submitted a chargesheet in the court.
