A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Dr Zubaida Rahman in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court Md Asaduzzaman accepted the charge-sheet and gave the order to arrest them on Tuesday. ACC lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajal confirmed the matter.
The court also directed the officer-in-charge (OC) of Cantonment police station to submit a progress report regarding the arrest warrant on January 5 next year.
On June 26, the High court ordered the judicial court to dispose of the case as soon as possible.
The HC also rejected the couple’s writ petitions challenging the corruption case against them for acquiring wealth beyond their known sources of income and concealing wealth in their affidavits.
As both of them remained fugitives, the court rejected the writ petitions of the duo saying these are not acceptable, he said.
The court also withdrew the stay order on the trial proceedings of the case filed against them.
On September 26 in 2007, the ACC lodged a complaint with Kafrul Police against Tarique Rahman, Zubaida and her mother Iqbal Mand Banu for amassing illegal wealth of Tk 4.81 crore and concealing the information.
In the same year, the High Court issued a rule suspending the trial proceedings in the case after hearing a petition filed by Zubaida.
The HC rejected the rule in 2017 and asked her to surrender before the court within eight weeks.