Graft case: HC stays trial proceedings against Mirza Abbas
The High Court today stayed the trial proceedings against BNP leader Mirza Abbas for next three months in a corruption case filed for causing Tk 16 crore losses to the state.
The court also issued a rule asking the Anti-Corruption Commission and the government to explain in four weeks as to why the proceedings against the BNP standing committee member should not be scrapped.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan came up with order and rule following a petition filed by Mirza Abbas for quashing the case proceedings against him.
The ACC filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station on March 6, 2014, against Mirza Abbas and BNP leader Alamgir Kabir and three others on charges of allocating seven acres of Rajuk land to a journalists' cooperative society at a rate lower than the actual value.
Abbas was the minister of housing and public works and Kabir was the state minister during the rule of the BNP-led coalition.
A Dhaka court on October 20 this year framed charges against Abbas, Kabir and Bijon Kanti Sarker, former joint secretary of housing and public works ministry, in the case.
Abbas’s lawyer Sagir Hossain Leon told The Daily Star that his client is now on bail in the case.
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