PBI finds no evidence against Bashundhara MD

Staff Reporter :
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) submitted the final report in the of Mosarat Jahan Munia murder case to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court in Dhaka on Wednesday exempting Bashundhara Group Managing Director (MD) Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others from the charge.
According to PBI’s final report, it has been said that all the accused, including the Managing Director of Bashundhara Group, have been exempted as the allegations made in the case are not based on fact.
Earlier, Bashundhara Group MD Sayem Sobhan Anvir was finally slashed from the police investigation report and the court from the first ‘suicide incitement case’ filed by Munia’s sister Nusrat.
According to PBI sources, on Wednesday, PBI has submitted the final report in the court seeking the acquittal of all the accused in the Munia murder case. According to the PBI report, the allegations could not be proved. He committed suicide. For this reason, it has been recommended to acquit the accused from the case.
On April 26 last year, the police recovered Munia’s body from a flat in Gulshan of the capital. That night, his sister Nusrat Jahan hastily filed a case with Gulshan police station on charge of incitement to suicide. After the long investigation into this case filed conspiratorially, the investigation officer of the case submitted the final report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on July 19 of that year. Later, on August 17 last year, a hearing was held on the report submitted by Gulshan Police Station OC Abul Hossain.
After the hearing, on August 18 last year, Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury released Sayem Sobhan Anvir as there was no logical reason of his involvement in the case. Along with that, the court rejected the appeal of the police report made by the plaintiff Nusrat as it was not logical.
When the first case of abetment to suicide was dismissed, Nusrat filed another conspiracy case on the charge of murdering Munia after rape.
On September 6 last year, another case was filed against eight people in Dhaka Women and Child Abuse Prevention Tribunal-8. The court then ordered Gulshan police station to record the case as a statement. At the same time, PBI was ordered to investigate the case.
Bashundhara Group MD Sayem Sobhan Anvir along with Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmad Akbar Sobhan, his wife Afroza Sobhan and Sayem’s wife Sabrina were accused in the case. The other accused are Saifa Rahman, Faria Mahbub, Sharmin and Ibrahim Ahmed.
Later, PBI arrested Saifa and Faria in this case. Finally, PBI submitted a final report in the court recommending that the accused should be released from the case after a long investigation of almost 1 year. Also, in the investigation report of the case, PBI revealed that Munia had committed suicide.
Advocate Tuhin Howladar, counsel for the defense, said Sayem Sobhan Anvir is a renowned business person and also Managing Director (MD) of a leading business group in the country. He has wide fame and reputation in the country and abroad. A complete conspiracy and scheming with the ulterior motive of tarnishing his reputation and damaging the business of the Bashundhara Group has been implicated in a case first.
The police did not find any evidence to support the charges against accused Sayem Sobhan Anvir in a three-month long investigation. After receiving the police report and establishing the truth and justice by court order, the conspirators framed a second case. That too proved false.
He also said that the government and anti-government powerful local and foreign circles joined the plaintiff Nusrat Jahan Tania in this conspiracy against the Bashundhara group. They spread various slander and misinformation through social media including Facebook and YouTube. Plaintiff Nusrat also directly participated in these talk shows and online meetings and spread various mis-information. According to the police investigation report, the court’s acquittal order and the final investigation report of PBI, these conspiracies have not been proven and justice has been established.