No legal bar for ACC to file case against Sigma Huda

The High Court today declared valid the Anti Corruption Commission’s notice that asked Sigma Huda, wife of former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda, to submit her wealth statement to it.

The bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty rejected a writ petition filed by Sigma Huda challenging the legality of the ACC notice to her.

There is no legal bar for the ACC to file a case against Sigma Huda for not submitting the wealth statement to the commission following the HC verdict, ACC’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.

The ACC had issued a notice to Sigma Huda on January 12, 2009 asking her to submit her wealth statement to it in seven days.

Then Sigma Huda filed a writ petition with the HC challenging the legality of the ACC notice.

Following the petition, the HC on January 27, 2009 stayed the effectiveness of the ACC notice and issued a rule asking the ACC to explain why the notice should not be declared illegal.

The ACC replied the HC rule, saying that the commission has legally served the notice to Sigma Huda and therefore, her writ petition challenging the ACC notice is not acceptable.

The HC conclude hearing on the rule on August 14, 2016 and kept the petition waiting for verdict.

Barrister Nazmul Huda appeared for Sigma Huda.