SC stays trial of ex-caretaker adviser Justice Fazlul Haque

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the trial proceedings against former adviser of the caretaker government Justice Fazlul Haque in a corruption case.

The apex court also allowed Fazlul Haque to move an appeal before it against the High Court's March 15 order that cleared the way for the lower court to continue the trial proceedings against him.

A three-member bench of Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order following a leave to appeal petition filed by Fazlul Haque challenging the HC verdict.

The Anti-Corruption Commission on April 13, 2008 filed the case with Ramna Police Station against Fazlul Haque on charges of amassing wealth worth Tk 97.37 lakh through illegal means and concealing asset information from the ACC.

On March 15 this year, the HC summarily rejected a petition filed by Fazlul Haque, also a retired judge of the Appellate Division, for scrapping the trial proceedings of the case.

Fazlul Huq later on filed a leave to appeal petition with the SC challenging the HC order.

ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that trial proceedings of the corruption case against Justice Fazlul Haque will not run at the lower court until a further order of the SC.