Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina -File Photo

DHAKA, May 25, 2025 (BSS) - A court here today set June 17 for submitting 
reports on executing its orders to arrest 100 people including ousted prime 
minister Sheikh Hasina in six cases lodged over irregularities in allocating 
plots in the RAJUK Purbachal New Town Project.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the 
order as police failed to submit the reports today, Anti-Corruption 
Commission (ACC) public prosecutor (PP) Mahmud Hossain Jahangir told BSS.

Earlier, the same court on April 15 issued arrest warrants against 29 people 
in two separate cases filed by the ACC regarding a scam in allocating plots 
in Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Purbachal New Town Project.

ACC Deputy Director Md Salahuddin filed one case against eight, including 
Sheikh Hasina, on January 14 for abusing power in allocating a 10-katha plot 
in the Purbachal New Town Project. Investigation Officer and ACC Assistant 
Director Afnan Jannat Keya on March 10 filed the charge sheet against a total 
of 12.

Meanwhile, ACC Assistant Director SM Rashedul Hasan filed the other case 
against 15, including Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, in this 
connection. He filed the charge sheet against 17 people on March 10.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib on April 13, 
2025, issued warrants to arrest 53 people including ousted prime minister 
Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and 
nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq in cases filed over a scam in allocating plot in 
RAJUK Purbachal New Town Project.

The ACC on January 13, 2025, filed another case against 15 people including 
Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana's son Radwan Mujib Siddiq, 
and daughters-- Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq-- on charges of abusing power 
to obtain plots from RAJUK. 

The ACC later filed a charge-sheet against 17.

The anti-graft body on the same day filed another case against 16 including 
Sheikh Hasina, Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq. Later, the ACC filed a charge-
sheet against 18. 

It also filed another case against Radwan Mujib Siddiq and 15 others on 
January 13. The anti-graft body later filed a charge-sheet against 18.