<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat asking why his bail should not be cancelled in a money laundering case.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A bench of justices Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Khizir Hayat issued the rule on a plea by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seeking cancellation of the bail.</div><div><br></div><div>The court fixed October 23 as the next date of hearing in the case.</div><div>Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the ACC during the hearing.</div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, the ACC lawyer filed the plea after taking permission from the High Court bench of justices.</div><div><br></div><div>On August 22, Judge Asad Md Asifuzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 granted bail to Samrat in the money laundering case.</div><div><br></div><div>The court granted him bail till September 19 considering his poor health condition on a Tk 10,000 bond.</div><div><br></div><div>With this, Samrat has secured bail in four cases and there is no legal bar to his release, said his lawyer Ehsanul Haque Samazi.</div><div><br></div><div>The judge had also asked him to submit his passport to the court as his bail condition, and he was also asked to take the court's permission to go abroad.</div><div>Samrat secured bail in a drugs case on April 11 and in an Arms Act case and the money laundering case on April 10.</div><div><br></div><div>The expelled Jubo League leader was under treatment at the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital from November 24 last year.</div><div><br></div><div>In October 2019, Rab detained Samrat and his associate Enamul Haque Arman from Chauddagram in Cumilla.</div><div><br></div><div>Rab raided his Kakrail office the next day. Huge quantities of foreign liquor, pistols, and two hides of kangaroo were seized from his office.</div><div><br></div><div>He was later sentenced by a mobile court to six months in prison under the Wildlife Conservation Act.</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul Khaleque, deputy assistant director of Rab-1, lodged two complaints against Samrat at Ramna police station under the Arms and the Narcotics acts. Arman was made an accused in the narcotics case.</div><div><br></div><div>Shekhar Chandra Mallik, a sub-inspector, submitted a chargesheet against Samrat in the Arms Act case.</div><div><br></div><div>The ACC lodged a complaint against him for acquiring assets worth Tk 2.94 crore beyond his known sources of income.</div><div><br></div><div>Rashedur Rahman, sub-inspector of CID, registered a case against him at the Ramna police station for laundering Tk 195 crore to Malaysia and Singapore. Last November, the investigating officer in the case submitted a chargesheet in the court. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>