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Cops probe bank accounts of Bidisha

Court orders she be moved to hospital

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The police have launched an investigation into the bank accounts of Bidisha Ershad, the beleaguered wife of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, to find out how much money she has deposited in the accounts and how she got it.
The investigators have already traced Bidisha's accounts with three banks and are almost certain that she has Tk 6 crore in two bank accounts in the country.
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"We have already found Tk 6 crore in her two accounts in Bangladesh and are going to check how much she deposited with another foreign bank outside the country," a source close to the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) said.
He added they have taken steps to know the amount that Bidisha, who is now on a three-day remand, has deposited with a foreign bank outside the country. The source, however, refused to name the banks.
He also claimed that they are sure that Tk 75 lakh has been deposited in a bank account of Bidisha and the money was sent from abroad. "We are still quizzing her to squeeze information about the source of the money."
Bidisha was arrested on Saturday after Ershad filed a theft case against her.
QUIZZING CONTINUES
Members of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), Special Branch (SB) of the police and National Security Intelligence (NSI) continued questioning Bidisha for the second consecutive day yesterday.
The police took Bidisha out of Gulshan Police Station on Monday afternoon and continued to interrogate her at several offices.
Sources said Bidisha was kept at the city SB office on Baily Road Monday night and questioned about her alleged foreign connections and the bank accounts.
The police also raided a number of houses of some influential people and Bidisha's offices.
A top police official asking not to be named said they have raided seven places including her office Manchitra, boutique shop 'Isabella' in Banani and elder sister Manisha's house in Uttara.
COURT ORDER
The vacation bench of the High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately transfer ailing Bidisha to the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Hospital (BSMMUH) for treatment during her remand in police custody.
It also ordered the police to allow Bidisha's lawyers access to her for consultation and let them take her signature on vokalatnama for filing a writ petition.
The court passed the interim order upon a petition filed by Bidisha's father Abu Bakr Siddique, a former Rajshahi University professor. The court also referred the matter to a regular bench for hearing when the court reopens on June 11.
Upon a separate petition, the court ordered the government not to arrest or harass Bidisha's father and her two sisters, and allow them to see her during police custody or remand.
Advocate Salahuddin Ahmed and Barrister Tanjibul Alam moved the petitions.
ERSHAD'S CLAIMS REFUTED Bidisha's mother Anwara Siddika yesterday refuted Ershad's allegation that Bidisha had not divorced her first husband Peter Wilson. She said the separation between Bidisha and Wilson was legally settled before her daughter married Ershad.
"Ershad invited Peter to Bangladesh and settled the matter after days of talks with him," Anwara said, adding the divorce between Bidisha and Peter is undoubtedly true.
She said the divorce documents have been kept at Ershad's Baridhara house, 'President Park', and if the documents were not handed to Bidisha, those would again be collected from Wilson.