Tk 40 Lakh Bribe: HC denies bail to suspended ACC director
The High Court yesterday again refused to grant bail to suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case filed against him on charges of taking Tk 40 lakh in bribes.
The court, however, issued a rule asking the ACC and government to explain in three weeks why Enamul should not be granted bail.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman came up with the rule following a bail petition filed by Enamul.
Enamul has to remain in jail, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
Enamul recently filed the petition through his lawyer Zahidul Alam stating that he was sick and had been in jail for a long time.
On March 10, HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam rejected a bail petition filed by Enamul.
The bench also directed the lower court concerned to finish within a year the trial proceedings of the case against Enamul.
The suspended officer landed in Dhaka Central Jail on July 23, 2019, about a week after ACC Director Sheikh Md Fanafillah filed the case with ACC's Integrated District Office in Dhaka on charges of taking Tk 40 lakh in bribes from suspended deputy inspector general of police Mizanur Rahman.
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