E-commerce platform Evaly chairman Shamima Nasrin was released from Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail in Gazipur on Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was arrested along with her husband and Evaly chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel at their Mohammadpur residence in Dhaka.
Shamima walked out of Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail at about 5:45pm on Wednesday, said the jail’s senior jail superintendent Halima Khatun.
Halima said that Shamima was taken to the jail on September 21,2021 in a case filed with Dhanmondi police station and was released from the jail on Wednesday afternoon as the documents of her bail reached the jail on Tuesday night.
Shamima, an accused in 33 cases, was released after scrutinising the documents, the senior jail super said.
Jailor Syed Shah Sharif said that a businessman Kamrul Islam Chakdar on September 18, 2021 lodged a case against 12 including Shamima Nasrin and Rassel over embezzlement of money.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested the couple during a raid at their apartment in the capital’s Mohammadpur on September 16 after a customer filed a case with Gulshan police station for their alleged involvement in misappropriating money.
