Dhaka, April 15 -- A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and 27 others in a case over corruption involving plot allocation in Dhaka's Purbachal New Town Project.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Zakir Hossain Ghalib issued the warrants after reviewing the chargesheet filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday, bdnews24.com reports.

"The court has also set a date for April 28 for a report on whether the suspects had been arrested," said Aminul Islam, assistant director of the ACC's Prosecution Division.

On April 13, the same court had issued warrants for 53 people, including Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana's son Radwan Mujib Siddiq, and her...