SC stays Rashedul Haque Chisty’s bail
The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the orders issued by the lower court and the High Court in connection with a Tk 159 crore money laundering case filed against Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Farmers Bank's former audit committee chairman Mahbubul Haque Chisty.
A Dhaka court on May 19 this year granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty in the case, which the High Court later stayed.
Yesterday, Chamber Judge of SC appellate division, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the stay order after virtually hearing a petition filed by Rashedul Haque Chisty challenging the HC stay order.
Chisty cannot get released from jail following the SC order, Anti Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alarm Khan told The Daily Star yesterday.
He added, the ACC had moved a criminal revision petition before the HC against the lower court order. The SC yesterday stayed the lower court order of bail considering the gravity of Chisty's offence.
The apex court chamber judge also sent to its full bench three other petitions filed by the ACC challenging the HC orders that upheld the lower court orders of bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty in three other corruption cases.
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