Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was arrested Monday on an extortion case and sent to jail after a court rejected bail petition.
Hasina was arrested for allegedly extorting 29.6 million taka ( about 442,000 U.S. dollars) while in power (1996-2001) from a private company East Coast Trading Ltd, local agent of Russian power company Technoprompt Export.
After more than two hours of hearing on Hasina's bail petition, Magistrate Mrs Qamrunnahar ordered to send Hasina to jail. She has been detained in a make-shift jail in parliament building complex.
More than 500 police and elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided her residence in early hours Monday and after three hours, she was picked up by the law enforcers and driven in a black jeep straight to the magistrate court.
President Professor Iajuddin Ahmed imposed a state of emergency on January 11 suspending the parliamentary elections slated for January 22 in the wake of unprecedented political turmoil over the elections.
Nearly 200 politicians, former ministers, members of parliament and businessmen and bureaucrats have been nabbed on charges of corruption ever since the imposition of the state of emergency.
Source: Xinhua
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