A court in Dhaka has granted bail to Nobel laureate and Grameen Communications Chairman Muhammad Yunus in a criminal lawsuit for violating labour laws.

Dhaka Labour Court 3 Judge Rahibul Islam granted the bails, after he surrendered before it on Sunday (Jan 26).

The three other accused in the case are Grameen Communications Managing Director Nazneen Sultana and Deputy General Manager Gauri Shankar and Director A Hai Khan.

On Jan 5, Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments Labour Inspector (General) Tariqul Islam filed a case with the Dhaka Labour Court 3 against the four for violating ten rules of the Labour Act.

According to the case documents, an inspection by the department to Grameen Communications on Oct 10 last year found as many as ten violations of the labour laws.

Prior to that on Apr 30, the department found the same violations and issued a warning to fix those.

The violations include no appointment letters, photo IDs and service books for workers, working hours not being approved by the inspector, yearly and half-yearly returns not being filed, workers not cashing in half of the earned leave, the company’s appointment policies not approved by the inspector general, not maintaining logs for special duties during holidays and not forming a panel for safety issues.