No bar on graft trial against Mirza Abbas: HC
The High Court (HC) yesterday cleared the way for a Dhaka court to resume the trial against BNP leader Mirza Abbas in connection with a corruption case filed for causing Tk 16 crore loss to the state.
The court passed the order after rejecting a petition filed by Abbas in 2016 seeking necessary orders to quash the legal proceedings against him.
The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam also ordered the lower court to finish the trial in six months, Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik told The Daily Star.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station in March 2014, against Abbas and four others on charges of allocating seven acres of Rajuk’s land to a journalists’ cooperative society, at a lower rate.
In December 2016, Abbas filed the petition seeking quashing of the proceedings.
Following his petition, an HC bench stayed the proceedings and also issued a rule asking the ACC and government to explain why the proceedings should not be scrapped.
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