<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Hallmark Group chairperson Jasmine Islam in a graft case filed over embezzlement of nearly TK 86 crore from a bank.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A division bench of justices Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Khizir Hayat rejected the bail plea of Jasmine.</div><div><br></div><div>Advocate Mansurul Haque Chowdhury appeared for the businesswoman, while advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier on March 10, 2019, the High Court granted bail to Jasmine in the case of embezzlement of Tk 85.87 crore from Janata Bank via a fake letter of credit.</div><div><br></div><div>Later, the ACC filed a petition challenging the bail order.</div><div><br></div><div>After hearing the appeal, the Appellate Division cancelled her bail and asked her to surrender within four weeks, on June 16, the same year.</div><div><br></div><div>Jasmine, also the wife of the Hallmark Group managing director Tanvir Mahmud, subsequently surrendered before the lower court and applied for bail in the High Court.</div><div><br></div><div>The High Court then issued a rule over her bail plea.</div><div><br></div><div>On November 1, 2016, Joynal Abedin, deputy assistant director of the anti-graft body, filed the case against 16 people, including Jasmine, at Motijheel police station in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>Later that day, the ACC arrested her from the capital`s Bangsal area. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>