The High Court (HC) today asked Jaha Alam to appear before it on next Wednesday for his statement of suffering in jail and to know how he is doing now.
Jaha Alam was wrongly imprisoned for three years because of an identity mess-up. He got released from jail on February 4 following a HC order.
The HC passed the order while it was hearing a rule issued by it on January 28 over JahaAlam’swrong imprisonment.
The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan and Justice KM Kamrul Kader gave one week time to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for submitting documents over the cases in which JahaAlam suffered in jail.
The court came up with the order after ACC lawyer Khurshid AlamKhan prayed to give more time to submit the documents.
During the proceedings, Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Amit Das Gupta who moved for JahaAlam’srelease told the court said the victim may appear before the court for explaining how he was arrested and suffered in jail. JahaAlam is in the court premises today, he informed the court.
Then, the court asked Amit Das to produce JahaAlambefore it on next Wednesday.
HOW JAHA ALAM LANDED IN JAIL
Between 2010 and 2011, Abu Salek, a businessman, misappropriated about Tk 18 crore from Sonali Bank's Cantonment branch. Salek used a fake address to open an account with the bank, the ACC said.
Salek also had an account in another private bank, ACC sources said.
In 2012, the anti-graft watchdog filed the 33 cases over the misappropriation, and Salek was made accused in most of them.
During investigation, the commission asked the banks' officials to identify and trace Salek.
The officials informed the ACC that the address provided by Salek in his bank documents was in Tangail's Nagarpur, ACC sources said.
The commission then summoned Salek to its office where the bank officials, including the account's introducers, were present.
However, the man who appeared before the ACC claimed that the authorities concerned were mistaken and his name was JahaAlam, not Abu Salek.
“To ascertain further, we sent the photo that Salek used in the bank's Know-Your-Client form to Nagarpur's Union Parishad chairman, who identified him as JahaAlam,” said an investigation officer preferring anonymity.
Later, the ACC placed a charge-sheet before the court identifying him as
