The High Court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of Chumki Karan, wife of suspended officer-in-charge (OC) of Teknaf police station and death row convict Pradip Kumar Das, in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Aminul Islam scrapped the bail plea and ordered to prepare a paper book for the appeal hearing against her 21-year imprisonment sentence.
On August 23, 2020, the ACC filed the case against sacked OC Pradip and his wife for amassing wealth worth over Tk 4 crore. Earlier, the couple was given notice to submit the statement of their assets and they submitted it after getting the notice.
Following their statement, after a long investigation, the ACC has reportedly found information about Pradip and his wife's assets worth more than Tk 4 crore that they had acquired.
Although Chumki was on the run since the beginning of the case, she was sent to jail after surrendering to the court on May 23 last year, the last day of the prosecution's testimony.
Her husband Pradip is also in jail in a case filed over the murder of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
Sinha was shot dead by police at Shamlapur check post on Marine Drive in the Baharchhara area of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar on the night of July 31, 2020.
