<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The High Court (HC) on Tuesday granted bail to controversial e-commerce platform Evaly’s Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Md Rassel in a case filed under Digital Security Act.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A joint bench of HC comprising Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md Aminul Islam passed the order after hearing a bail petition.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The court also announced the rule issued regarding the bail as appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Attorney General Sarwar Hossain Bappi who stood for the state in the court said they will submit a petition seeking a stay order against the bail.</div><div><br></div><div>Defendant counsel Ahsanul Karim said though the HC granted bail to his client Rassel in the DSA case on Tuesday; he won’t be able to walk out of jail due to having more cases.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>On September 16, 2021, Rassel and His wife Shamima Nasrin were arrested in a raid from their home in the capital's Mohammadpur area.</div><div><br></div><div>The owners of Evaly were allegedly involved in embezzlement of several hundred crores of taka. They were arrested after a victim filed a case against them.</div><div><br></div><div>Though Nasrin is now out of jail on bail,&nbsp; Rassel has been in jail since his arrest.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>The online platform’s customer Mohammad Alamgir Hossain filed a case against the couple and unidentified 15 to 20 individuals bringing the allegation of deception under the DSA on September 30, 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the case statement, the plaintiff paid Tk 28 lakh to Evaly through bKash and Nagad for buying electronic appliances from January 1 to September in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>Though it was supposed to deliver the products within 45 days of order, no produce was handed over to the customer despite elapsing seven months.</div><div><br></div><div>The case’s investigation officer Prodip Kumar Das, also a CID official, submitted the chargesheet against them on September 16 the past year.</div><div><br></div><div>On March 2 this year, Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge AM Zulfiqar Hayat ordered to begin the trial of the case through forming the charges. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>