Bogura District and Senior Special Judge Naresh Chandra Sarkar passed the order when Latif Siddiqui appeared before the court and sought bail.
Earlier on February 18, Assistant Director Md Aminul Islam of ACC submitted a chargesheet against him in the corruption case.
According to the case statement, Latif Siddiqui sold out 2.38 acres of land of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation at Dariapur village in Adamdighi upazila to Begum Jahanara without floating any tender at Tk 23 lakh, which was just over one third of its market value, said to have been Tk 64 lakh at the time.
Later, a corruption case was filed with Adamdighi Police Station accusing Siddiqui and Jahanara.
Siddiqui’s offense was to sell the government-owned land and incurring a loss of Tk 40.70 lakh (the difference between the selling price and its market value) to the public exchequer.