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Bidisha
Siddik, former wife of late president Huseyn Muhammad Ershad, walked out of
jail on Tuesday after securing bail in a fraud case.
She left
the Kashimpur Women Central Jail around 5pm, after the jail authorities received
and verified the court’s bail-related documents, said the prison’s jailer Aliva
Sharmin.
On 6 September,
a High Court bench granted her bail after a trial court had imposed a two-year
prison term in a fraud case.
On 25 August,
she was arrested from a restaurant in Gulshan. The police produced her before
the court the following day, and the judge sent her to prison, denying her bail
plea.
Earlier, on
20 May, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate sentenced her to two years in prison on
allegations she committed fraud in the name of selling residential apartments.
She was
also ordered to pay Tk10,000 fine or spent additional one month in prison upon
failure to pay up.
As Bidisha was
absent during the hearing, the court issued an arrest warrant.