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GRAFT ALLEGATION AGAINST JUDGE

Judicial council hears kingpin's version

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The Supreme Judicial Council yesterday heard Nasim Sultana Kona who alleged that High Court Additional Judge Syed Shahidur Rahman accepted Tk 50,000 in two installments to fix a bail in a case on her behalf.
Judge Shahid was present before the council where she divulged details of how and where this sum was given to him, it was learnt.
Due to a ban imposed by the council on the disclosure of the proceedings of the case, no-one in the council commented on the day's proceedings.
However, Supreme Court sources said Kona became agitated several times during the course of giving her account. She also accused the judge of not speaking
the truth before the three-member council chaired by Chief Justice KM Hasan. The other two members are Justice M Ruhul Amin and Justice Fazlul Karim.
After Kona finished, Shahidur interrogated her. During this session, she became agitated and claimed that he was not speaking the truth. She reiterated her claim of giving him the money, it was further learnt.
In her deposition Kona told the council that on the first day, she went to Judge Shahidur's residence and gave him Tk 20,000. The judge, sitting on a sofa at the corner of his room, was irritated, as she did not give him the entire sum at one go.
She told the council that she visited Shahidur twice. Earlier in January, when he was still a lawyer, he facilitated bails of three accused
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in a case. She took these three persons to him.
After Shahidur became a judge in April, Kona went to him in August in connection with a women repression case. Judge Shahidur then told her that he was allowed to practice law for two years although he has become a judge. He told her that he would prepare the bail documents himself, Kona claimed.
Judge Shahidur drafted the bail petition and then Kona gave him the remaining Tk 30,000.
During the hearing, Shahidur claimed that Kona met him back in March. But Kona refuted this claim saying she met him in January and then on August 26 and September 3.
The council was told that Judge Shahidur deceived Kona after he had taken Tk 50,000. She realised that he was not truthful when Kona discussed the matter with Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud. As a judge, Shahidur could no longer act as a lawyer, she learnt.
Kona told the council that she had complained to no-one, but had shared her ordeals with the Bar president. She vouched for the truthfulness of her statements before the council.
Among those present before the council were Pavel and Babu -- who accompanied Kona to Judge Shahidur's residence and also Advocate Asaduzzaman and Barrister Mustafizur Rahman Khan -- who were present when Kona first discussed the matter with the Bar president.
Judge Shahidur will interrogate Kona again when the council meets on December 14, according to sources.
Rokan disclosed the incident on October 1 at a meeting of lawyers.