A Dhaka court on Sunday framed charges against expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon alias Sumon Chowdhury and two others in a case lodged under the Special Powers Act for recovering fake notes from them.
Dhaka Metropolitan Additional Magistrate Hasibul Haque passed the order, initiating the trial procedure officially.
The other two accused are Papia and Sumon’s associates Sabbir Khandakar and Sheikh Tayeba Nur.
Police on November 29, 2020, filed a charge sheet in the case filed under the Special Powers Act. Police in the charge sheet alleged that the accused were carrying fake currencies for a long time for selling and was trying to smuggle those abroad. Twenty people were made witnesses in the case.
A Dhaka court on October 12, 2020, convicted Papia and her husband in an arms case and sentenced them to 20-year imprisonment.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on February 22, 2020, detained Papia and her husband, along with two of their accomplices, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with counterfeit banknotes, foreign currencies and cash.
RAB later raided their two luxurious flats in the capital's Indira Road area and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign liquor, Tk 58.41 lakh in cash, among other things.
