e-Commerce platform Alesha Mart fails, sued

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A customer today filed two separate cases against the Chairman of Scam-hit e-Commerce platform Alesha Mart.

‘Abdullah Al Mamun filed two cases, one for dishonouring cheque and another for not supplying him motorbikes in spite of paying the price in advance, against Alesha Mart chairman Manjurul Alam Sikder,’complainant’s lawyer Khademul Islam told the media.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka recorded statement of the complainant and issued summons against the accused, the lawyer added.

According to the case documents, the complainant ordered three motorbikes from the e-commerce site on June 5, and 7 in 2021, and paid the price given on the site in advance. But the e-commerce site failed to supply him the bikes, subsequently giving him two cheques of Taka 4, 23,000 of the National Bank Limited.

The complainant tried to cash the cheques from the Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited of Ibrahimpur Branch on June 20, 2022, but both the cheques 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 other 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 encash the cheque on July 28, 2022, it was dishonoured. He on September 3 sent legal notice to the accused and finally filed the case. - Special Correspondent