A court in Dhaka on Wednesday convicted and sentenced Mohammad Rassel, managing director (MD) of e-commerce platform "Evaly", and his wife Shamima Nasrin, also the chairman of the company, to two-year simple imprisonment in a fraud case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Partho Bhadra pronounced the verdict, reports BSS.
The court also fined the duo Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer two months more in jail. It came up with the judgment in the absence of the two convicts and issued an arrest warrant against them, court clerk Mehedi Hasan told BSS.
According to the case documents, plaintiff Toufik Mahmud ordered a Yamaha R15 bike through the platform on March 20, 2021, and paid Tk 2.45 lakh. He again ordered two more bikes on April 3, 2021, and paid Tk 5.90 lakh more. However, the e-commerce company failed to supply the customer with any bikes within the fixed time of 45 days.
He contacted Evaly headquarters in Dhanmondi, where he was given two bank cheques. But, the Evaly authorities later called him and asked him not to cash the cheques as there was no sufficient balance in their account. Toufik later contacted Evaly authorities numerous times, but they failed to pay him back.
After that, Toufik sent them legal notice and ultimately filed the case on February 4, 2024.
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