A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir after a case was filed accusing him of abetting the suicide of a woman.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shahidul Islam passed the order on Tuesday after Gulshan police OC Abul Hassan, who is investigating officer of the case, moved petition to bar Sayem from leaving the country.
Md Alamgir Hossain, a general recording officer (GRO) at the CMM court, confirmed the development.
In the petition, the IO said there is a chance that Sayem might leave the country to avoid his arrest.
A message was conveyed to the Immigration police to take similar steps as well, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Gulshan Division Deputy Commissioner (DC) Sudip Kumar Chakraborty.
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Sayem is the son of Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, the chairman of Bashundhara, one of the largest business groups in Bangladesh.
A woman was found dead at a Gulshan apartment in Dhaka that police termed suicide.
The deceased, Mosarat Jahan Munia, 21, of Comilla, was a second-year student and HSC exam candidate at Mirpur Cantonment Public School and College.
Her sister, Nusrat Jahan, found the hanging body of her sister and informed the police. Police later recovered the body from the rented flat on Road No 120 in Gulshan 1 on Monday evening.
Quoting her sister, police said that Munia committed suicide in that flat, where she started living alone in March.
Meanwhile, hours after finding Munia dead, Nusrat filed a case at Gulshan police station, accusing Sayem of abetting suicide.
