HC starts hearing plea of Ershad
The High Court yesterday started hearing a 24-year-old appeal of former president HM Ershad against a lower court verdict that jailed him for three years in a corruption case.
After concluding yesterday's proceedings, the HC bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus also fixed today for resuming the hearing.
During the hearing, Ershad's lawyer Sheikh Sirajul Islam read out from the first information report and charge sheet of the case before the bench.
Earlier on August 22 this year, Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan has prayed to the HC for hearing the appeal.
The then Bureau of Anti Corruption, which became defunct after formation of the ACC in 2004, had filed the case against Ershad with Cantonment Police Station on the charge of misappropriating Tk 1.91 crore by misusing powers at different times while he was president from December 11, 1983 to December 6, 1990.
A Dhaka court on February 3, 1992 convicted Ershad, also the chairman of Jatiya Party, for misappropriating the money and ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate the money and his Toyota Land Cruiser car for committing corruption.
Following Ershad's appeal filed in the same year, the HC stayed the lower court verdict.
Ershad had earlier got bail from the HC in the case, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam.
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