Arrest warrant against Alesha Mart chairman

A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Manjurul Alam Sikder, Chairman of scam-hit e-commerce platform Alesha Mart, in two cheque fraud cases.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain issued the warrant and asked police to submit a report on November 24 on execution of the arrest warrant.

On September 7, a person named Abdullah Al Mamun filed two cases with Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrates’ Court against Alesha Mart Chairman Manjurul Alam Sikder, court sources said.

Following the cases, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court summoned the accused but he did not appear before the court on the day.

According to the case, Abdullah Al Mamun ordered three motorbikes from the e-commerce site on June 5 and 7 last year and paid the price given on the site in advance.

But the e-commerce site failed to supply him the bikes, subsequently giving him two cheques of Tk423, 000 of National Bank Limited.

The plaintiff tried to cash the cheques at Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited Ibrahimpur Branch on 20 June 2022 but both the cheques bounced.

Later on 17 July he sent a legal notice to the accused and finally filed the cheque dishonour case.

As per documents in the other case, the petitioner ordered three motorbikes on 24 June 2021 from the e-commerce site but it failed to supply him the bikes on time.

Later, they gave him a cheque of Tk352, 000 of Islami Bank Limited. As the plaintiff tried to cash the cheque on 28 July 2022 it bounced. Later Abdullah Al Mamun on 03 September sent a legal notice to the accused and finally filed the cases.