Published : 26 Aug 2026, 04:49 AM
Updated : 08 Sep 2026, 09:35 AM
Police have arrested Bidisha Ershad, former wife of former president and Jatiya Party founder HM Ershad.
Police detained her from Gulshan around 8:30pm Tuesday, Gulshan Police chief Daud Hossain said.
“She was arrested under a warrant in a fraud case,” he said.
The case had resulted in a two-year prison sentence and a Tk 10,000 fine for Bidisha, the police officer added.
On May 20 this year, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jamshed Alam jailed Bidisha for two years in the case involving allegations of fraud over a flat sale.
In addition to the prison term, she was fined Tk 10,000, with another month in jail if she fails to pay.
A businessman named Mosharraf Hossain Sikder filed the case at Gulshan Police Station in 2008, alleging fraud over the sale of a flat at President Park in Baridhara.
According to the case statement, having learnt about Mosharraf’s need through contacts, Bidisha showed him the flat on Jul 1, 2001, and offered to sell it.
They subsequently reached an agreement worth Tk 8 million for the flat.
The complaint states that on Jul 10, 2001, Bidisha called the plaintiff to her Rajanigandha office in Banani and asked him to issue a pay order of Tk 7.5 million in the name of her nominee and friend Abdul Razzaq.
The plaintiff paid the money through the Karwan Bazar branch of Standard Chartered Bank. A deed of agreement was subsequently executed between both parties.
Under the contract, the flat was to be registered after obtaining approval from the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (RAJUK) and settling the remaining balance.
Although there was a promise to hand over the flat by Jul 10, 2002, the plaintiff alleged that the property was not handed over even after a considerable length of time.
The case states that when pressured to hand over the flat, Bidisha assured him that the money would be refunded.
She later issued a cheque for Tk 7.2 million on Feb 9, 2005.
When presented to the bank, the cheque, however, bounced due to insufficient funds in the account.
The plaintiff alleged that Bidisha delayed matters with excuses and handed over neither the money nor the flat. Instead, she issued “death threats using hired thugs”.
