Dhaka, June 21 -- A Sylhet court has issued arrest warrants against Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, and four others in connection with a cheque fraud case involving dishonoured payments to a former journalist.

The arrest warrants were issued on Thursday by Judge Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid of the Sylhet Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court following a hearing on a case filed by journalist Ahmed Noor, a former Sylhet bureau chief of the national daily Kaler Kantho and currently the editor of Sylhet Mirror.

Confirming the development, the plaintiff's lawyer Emad Ullah Shahidul Islam stated that the court took the decision after the accused failed to comply with previous summons...