Published: 12:02 AM, 21 May 2026
Bidisha jailed in flat sale fraud case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced Bidisha Hossain, former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to two years imprisonment and fined her Taka 10,000 in a case filed over embezzlement of money through executing a deed for selling an apartment and issuing threats.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam pronounced the judgment this noon and also issued an arrest warrant against Bidisha, who is yet to be arrested.
According to the case documents, businessman AKM Mosharraf Hossain Shikdar entered into an agreement with Bidisha in 2001 to purchase flat 2/B at the President Park apartment complex in Baridhara for Taka 80 lakh. Shikdar paid Taka 75 lakh through a pay order prior to the registration, BSS reports.
Bidisha was scheduled to complete the registration and hand over the flat by July 10, 2002, but she failed to do so. After delaying the matter for four to five years, she later agreed to refund the money and issued a cheque, which was dishonoured on several occasions when presented for encashment.
She also allegedly threatened the victim over the demand for returning the deed and the cheque. The complainant, AKM Mosharraf Hossain Shikdar, filed the case in 2008.
