Labour law violation: Dr Yunus, 3 others get bail
Court Correspondent
The Labour Appellate Tribunal on Sunday granted bail to Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, also the chairman of Grameen Telecom, and its three other top officials.
Senior District and Sessions Judge MA Awal, also the tribunal’s acting chairman, passed the order after accepting their appeals submitted with the tribunal, challenging a Dhaka court’s earlier verdict that sentenced the four to six months in jail in a case filed over the violation of labour law.
Defence lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun confirmed the development, saying appeals along with bail pleas of his clients were submitted this morning.
The tribunal granted bail to the Nobel laureate and Grameen Telecom officials Md Ashraful Hasan, Nurjahan Begum, and Md Shahjahan till the appeal petitions are disposed of, he added.
All the four were present in the tribunal during the submission of the petitions.
On 1 January, the Dhaka Third Labour Court sentenced the four to six months’ jail, with a fine of Tk25,000 each, in the case. The court also granted them conditional bail on the same day.
The court set 1 January to pronounce the verdict in the case after hearing the arguments of both the prosecution and the defence on 24 December last year.
On June 6, 2023, the court framed charges against the four accused.
On 9 September 2021, Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) Labour Inspector SM Arifuzzaman filed the case against the four defendants.
According to the case statement, during an inspection, the DIFE officials found that the company’s 101 workers and staff who were supposed to be permanent were not made so.
Besides, no participation and welfare funds were formed for them, and 5% of the company’s profit was not provided to the workers as per the law.
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