Rooppur Purchase Scam: HC questions contractor’s bail
The High Court yesterday questioned the lower court order that granted bail to contractor Shahadat Hossain in a case filed over last year's infamous corruption in purchasing furniture and household products for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
The HC issued a rule asking the state to explain in two weeks why the lower court order should not be scrapped.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Ahmed Sohel came up with the rule following a revision petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) challenging the lower court order.
Shahadat Hossain is the managing director of Sazin Construction Ltd, which supplied the products to the living quarters in Pabna.
He was released from jail after a Pabna court on August 26 granted bail to him in two corruption cases.
The ACC then filed two revision petitions with the HC, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
After virtually hearing one petition, the HC yesterday issued a rule and it might hear the other revision petition today, he said.
Lawyers Shafique Ahmed and Mahbub Shafique appeared for Shahadat while Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state.
Shahadat Hossain and several others were sued by the ACC on December 12 last year on charges of corruption involving Tk 16 crore. Shahadat was arrested on the same day.
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