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The High Court has asked the government to explain why the owners of e-commerce company Dalalplus should not be ordered to return Tk 9.57 crore to 42 customers.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Biswajit Debnath issued the rule after hearing a writ petition on Wednesday.
Secretaries to the Commerce Ministry, Home Ministry, Law Ministry, Bangladesh Bank governor, chief of BFIU, inspector general of police, managing director (MD) of SSL Commerz and shurjoPay, and Dalalplus Chairman Saleh Uddin Murad, MD Md Azizul Haque and Director Abu Jubair Hossain have been made respondents to the rule.
Advocate Abu Sadat Md Sayem Ali Pathan stood for the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Tushar Kanti Roy represented the state.
Earlier, 42 Dalalplus customers, including Md Al Amin, filed a petition seeking a High Court order to have the e-commerce company pay Tk 9,57,97,380 back to them.
Advocate Pathan said the customers paid Tk 9,57,97,380 to Dalalplus to buy their respective products between June and September 2021.
But the customers never received their products and the company did not refund them, he added.
Meanwhile, the same bench on Wednesday in another rule also asked the government to explain why the owners of e-commerce company E-orange should not be ordered to return Tk 3.43 crore to 42 customers.
The court issued the rule after hearing another writ petition filed by Al Amin on behalf of the 42 people.
Advocate Pathan said these customers also did not get their products even after paying E-orange. The company also did not refund them.
