Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana and Tulip Siddiq. File Photo

DHAKA, April 27, 2025 (BSS) – A court here today set May 12 for submitting reports on executing arrest warrants against 53 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and niece Tulip Siddiq in separate cases filed over irregularities in acquiring plots in 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 Mir Ahammed Salam told BSS.

The same court on April 13 issued warrants to arrest 53 people including Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq in three separate cases. The court passed the order, accepting the formal charges filed in the cases. 

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) deputy director Salahuddin filed a case against Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana, Radwan Mujib and 12 others for taking a 10-katha plot in the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Purbachal through misuse of power and forgery.

Investigation officer Afnan Jannat Keya filed the charge sheet in the case on March 10, adding the names of two other accused.
 
ACC assistant director Afnan Jannat Keya, on January 13, filed another case against Azmina Siddiq for taking a 10-katha plot in the RAJUK project through misuse of power and forgery. A total of 16 people, including Sheikh Hasina and Tulip, were implicated in the case. The charge sheet in the case on March 10, adding the names of two other accused.
 
Assistant director SM Rashedul Hasan of the ACC on January 13 filed a case against Sheikh Rehana's son, Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and 15 others over the same allegation as his mother and sisters. The ACC official on March 10 filed the charge sheet against 18.

The anti-graft body officials in the charge sheets alleged that Sheikh Rehana, her daughter Azmina and son Radwan like Saima Wazed Putul, with malicious intent, illegally influenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and filed an application to her rather than to RAJUK, violating the laws, rules, policies and legal procedures regarding the allocation of plots in the Purbachal New City Housing Project.

They had done that even though they and their family members owned a house or flat, or a housing facility in the area under the jurisdiction of RAJUK in Dhaka city.