Tulip, two others sued for grabbing flat in Dhaka

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana and niece of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two others for grabbing a flat at a project of Eastern Housing Limited in city’s Gulshan area.

Deputy Director of the anti-graft body Monirul Islam filed the case with its Dhaka Integrated district office on Tuesday.

ACC Director General-(Prevention) Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information at a media briefing at its headquarters in city’s Segunbagicha area. 

The two other accused of the case are former assistant legal advisers of Rajdhani Unnayan Katripokkha (Rajuk) Shah Md Khasruzzaman and Sardar Mosharaf Hossain.

Tulip, also a former Labour MP from Hampstead and Highgate, grabbed the flat of Eastern Housing, creating her influence on the RAJUK, Monirul said in the case statement.

Akhter Hossain said that the three accused, in connivance with each other, grabbed the flat forcibly without paying any money to the developer company.  

The developer company was constructing the building, taking lease of the land through false papers from the government, Hossain claimed to have found the evidence in this regard.

Earlier, the ACC formed a seven-member investigation committee led by Monirul Islam, he said.