HC can give right decision: Dr Kamal
Constitution expert Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said the High Court would decide whether Awami League leader Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya can continue holding office as the relief and disaster management minister as the Supreme Court scrapped an HC verdict clearing Maya of graft charges.
The HC can give the right decision if the question is placed before it. “No comment should be made on a sub-judice matter,” the eminent jurist told journalists after a programme on legal aid.
It was organised by the South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies in the capital's Brac Centre Inn.
Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case against Maya with Sutrapur Police Station on June 13, 2007.
A special court on February 14, 2008, convicted Maya for illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 6.29 crore and concealing assets worth Tk 5.90 crore.
It sentenced him to 13 years in jail, fined him Tk 5 crore, and ordered confiscation of about Tk 6 crore of his “ill-gotten” wealth.
Maya filed an appeal with the HC on May 25, 2009. The HC acquitted him on October 27, 2010. On June 14, the SC's Appellate Division cancelled the acquittal.
On June 30, an SC lawyer, Eunus Ali Akond, sent a legal notice to Maya in “public interest”, asking to explain in 24 hours under what authority he was holding office as member of parliament and minister after the SC verdict.
Eunus told The Daily Star yesterday that he did not get any reply and was yet to decide whether to file a writ petition with the HC seeking necessary directives.
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