ACC challenges HC bail order for bdnews24.com editor-in -chief
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of online news portal bdnews24.com, in a corruption case.
In the petition, the ACC prayed to the apex court to stay Khalidi's bail order, saying that there are specific allegations against him of committing corruption, ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star today.
He said the ACC filed the stay petition with the SC on August 27.
The chamber judge of the Appellate Division might hold hearing on the ACC's stay petition on Thursday, the ACC lawyer added.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman on August 26 granted anticipatory bail to Khalidi for eight weeks in the corruption case after hearing a petition filed by the accused.
ACC on July 30 filed the case against Khalidi, for allegedly depositing Tk 42 crore -- which has no "legal source" -- in different banks.
Gulshan Anwar Pradhan, deputy director of the anti-graft watchdog, filed the case with ACC's integrated district office Dhaka-1, saying that Khalidi earned the money through illegal means by creating "fake documents".
Khalidi, however, denied the allegations against him.
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