Former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s former wife
Bidisha Ershad has been sent to jail to serve a two-year sentence in a fraud
case involving the sale of a flat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Islam
Junaid passed the order after a hearing on Wednesday.
Bidisha was brought before the court that day. Her lawyer
Moniruzzaman Sobuj then sought bail on the condition that she would appeal the
verdict. The state’s lawyer Syed Golam Mortuza Ibn Islam and the plaintiff’s
lawyer Hemayet...