Arrest warrant issued against Alesha Mart chairman

A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against the chairman of e-commerce platform Alesha Mart in two cases filed in connection with dishonoring cheque for insufficiency.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain passed the order, setting November 24 for submitting report on executing the warrant.

One Abdullah Al Mamun, a customer of the e-commerce site, filed the two cases on September 7 for dishonouring cheques.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court recorded the statement of the plaintiff on that day and issued summons against the accused, reports BSS.

The plaintiff ordered three motorbikes from the e-commerce site on June 5 and 7, 2021, and paid the price given on the site in advance, according to the case statements.

But the e-commerce site failed to supply him the bikes, subsequently giving him two cheques of Taka 4, 23,000 of National Bank Limited.

The plaintiff tried to cash the cheques at Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited Ibrahimpur Branch on June 20, 2022, but both the cheques were bounced from the bank.

Later on July 17, he sent a legal notice to the accused and finally filed the cheque dishonour case.

As per the another case documents, the petitioner ordered three motorbikes on June 24, 2021, from the e-commerce site, but it failed to supply him the bikes on fixed dates.

Later they gave him a cheque of Taka 3, 52,000 of Islami Bank Limited. As the complainant tried to cash the cheque on July 28, 2022, it was dishonoured.

He on September 3 sent legal notice to the accused and finally filed the case.