UNB, Dhaka

The High Court Monday summarily rejected a writ petition of Sheikh Rehana challenging the legality of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s order showing her absconder in an extortion case in which she is already being tried in absentia along with her detained elder sister.
Passing the order, a division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice Abdul Awal observed that there is “no provision, in the eye of law, for allowing a fugitive to get any relief”.
Since the fugitive petitioner is aware of the case by filing okalatnama through her lawyer, the question of exhausting legal process showing an accused as fugitive is not required. [Read more]