Graft case: SC halts trial against Tarique’s mother-in-law

The Supreme Court today scrapped the trial proceedings of a corruption case against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman’s mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu.

The court said that the Anti-Corruption Commission’s notice under which the case was filed is no more valid as the notice was not served in a proper way.

The apex court directed the ACC to issue a press notice asking Iqbal Mand to submit her wealth statement to the commission.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after hearing an appeal filed by the accused challenging a High Court verdict.

The High Court on February 2 last year cleared the way for the lower court to run the trial proceedings against Iqbal Mand in the corruption case.

The ACC lawyer, Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan, told The Daily Star he would convey the Supreme Court order to the commission for issuing the press notice.