HC asks lower court to finish trial in 6 months
The High Court yesterday cleared the way for a lower court to resume trial proceedings of a corruption case against former BNP state minister Lutfozzaman Babar.
The HC also directed the Senior Metropolitan Special Judge's Court of Dhaka to finish the trial proceedings of the case in the next six months.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with Ramna Model Police Station on January 13, 2008 against Babar for amassing wealth worth Tk 7.6 crore beyond a known source of income, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
The commission submitted charge sheet against Babar to the lower court on July 16, 2008 and the court accepted the charges on July 23 the same year, he said.
Following a petition filed by Babar, the HC on August 25, 2008 stayed the trial proceedings and issued a rule asking the ACC and the government to explain why the case proceedings against Babar should not be scrapped.
After holding hearing on the rule, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim yesterday scrapped the stay order and the rule and asked the lower court to finish the trial proceedings in six months, Khurshid said.
Babar, who is now in jail custody, was convicted and sentenced to death in “10 truck arms haul” case and to 17 years' imprisonment in an arms case.
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