Hoarding of rice, paddy: ACI Managing Director and another one get HC bail

Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Sunday granted anticipatory bail for six weeks to two ACI officials including its Managing Director Arif Dowla in a case filed on charge of hoarding 4,510 tonnes of rice and paddy in Sherpur upazila under Bogura district.
The High Court Bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan passed the order after hearing a bail petition filed by the accused.
Barrister Sayed Mahsib Hossain appeared in the bail hearing for the petitioners.
Mamun-A-Kaiyum, Food Controller in Sherpur upazila, filed the case with the Sherpur Police Station on January 19 in 2023 on charge of hoarding 4,510 tonnes of rice and paddy in local warehouses.
Four persons, Arif Dowla, Managing Director of ACI Foods Limited and Functional Head of ACI Group, Abdullah Al Mamun, senior officer of ACI Foods Limited (rice unit), Shamima Islam, Proprietor of Shinu Agro, and Md Anamul Haque, Manager of Shinu Agro, were made accused in the case.
Among the accused Arif Dowla and Abdullah Al Mamun filed bail petition with the HC recently.
According to the case documents, the District Food Controller Office conducted a raid at the warehouses of the Shinu Agro Food Limited, located in Juanpur area under the upazila, in where the ACI Limited authorities stored the rice and the paddy.