C T Online Desk: A Dhaka court today granted bail to five people including businessperson turned politician Helena Jahangir in a fraud case filed with Dhaka’s Pallabi Police Station.
Four others are Hazera Khatun, general manager of Helena Jahangir’s IPTV “Joyjatra television”, Coordinator of the television Sanaullah Nuri, chief news editor Qamruzzaman Arif and staff reporter Mahfuzur Rahman.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain granted bail to Helena, Hazera Sanaullah and Arif after they appeared before it, seeking bail in the case.
The same court also granted Mahfuz, now in jail custody, after his lawyer submitted bail petition on grounds that he had been languishing in jail for long time.
The court fixed April 17 for hearing on charge framing against Helena and four others in the case.
Earlier on November 21 last year, Inspector Shahinur Islam of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Helena and four others to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.
Bhola District Correspondent Abdur Rahman Tuhin filed the fraud case against Helena Jahangir and four others with Pallabi Police Station on August 2 last year.
In the case, it was alleged that Helena took Tk 54,000 from one Abdur Rahman Tuhin of Bhola district for appointing him as a local correspondent of Joyjatra TV. As a correspondent Rahman worked for several months but was not paid any salary. On the other hand, the television authorities took Tk 3,000 per month from him.
The law enforcers arrested Helena during a raid at her Gulshan residence on July 29 last year.
She was released on bail in November last year after getting bail from different courts on different dates.
