Law Week
Graft charges pressed against Jamir Uddin
The ACC on November 7 pressed charges against former speaker Jamir Uddin Sircar and an official of parliament secretariat in two cases filed against them for misappropriating Tk 33 lakh. Mohammad Moniruzzaman, ACC deputy director and also the investigation officer of the cases, submitted the charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lodged the cases with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station on December 28, 2010. In a case, the ACC brought allegation that Jamir Uddin and former chief whip late Khandaker Delwar Hossain, abusing their power misappropriated furniture and other goods worth over Tk 6 lakh supplied by the parliament secretary. In another case, the ACC said Jamir Uddin and former chief accounts officer of the parliament Ashraf-ul-Islam, who is now posted at the post and telecommunication ministry, misappropriated over Tk 27 in the name of medical checkup abroad. -The Daily Star online edition November 7, 2012.
HC clears way for ACC case against Habib
The High Court on November 6 cleared the way for the Anti-Corruption Commission to resume trial proceedings of a corruption case against former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib. The ACC had filed the case on July 3, 2008 against Habib on charge of illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 87.94 lakh and concealing information about it. The HC rejected a petition filed by the BNP lawmaker for quashing the proceedings of the case and vacated its earlier order in 2008, which had stayed the proceedings. The HC bench of Justice Khondker Musa Khaled and Justice Md Nazrul Talukder came up with the verdict saying that it cannot accept any petition for quashing a case which is under investigation. Earlier in, July of 2008, another HC bench had stayed the proceedings of the case and issued a rule upon the ACC to explain why the case should not be scrapped.-The Daily Star November 7, 2012.
HC directs govt to save Turag, Shitalakhhya
The High Court on November 6 directed the government to stop sand business on the banks of the rivers Turag at Shinnirtek in the capital's Mirpur and Shitalakhhya at Kanchpur in Narayanganj in three days. Responding to a writ petition, the court also ordered the government to remove sand from the two places within 15 days. The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar asked the government to submit a report after complying with the order within four weeks. The court also issued a rule upon the authorities concerned of the government to explain in ten days why they should not be directed to evict sand traders from the river banks and protect the areas from encroachment. Secretary to the ministry of shipping, chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, director general of the Department of Environment, deputy commissioners of Dhaka and Narayanganj and nine other government officials concerned have been made respondents to the rule. -The Daily Star November 7, 2012.
HC wants probe into fatwa incident in Mirsarai
The High Court on November 5 directed the home secretary to form a high-profile committee led by a joint secretary to investigate the allegation of imposing a fatwa on a housewife in Mirsarai of Chittagong. During hearing of a rule, the court asked the secretary to submit the probe report before it within four weeks, and fixed December 10 for passing a further order on this issue. Media reports said ruling Awami League leader of Nayduria and local union parishad member, along with some supporters at a village arbitration declared that stones will be thrown at housewife Asma after putting her in a hole, which was chest deep. The arbitration was held on October 2 after Asma had filed a case against Mahfuzul and his aides on charges of sexual harassment in July. They reportedly sexually abused her days before the case was filed. After that, following a writ petition, the HC on October 16 issued a rule upon the government to explain why it should not be directed to act against those responsible for the fatwa incident.-The Daily Star November 6, 2012.
SC to hear appeal Dec 11 in Jail Killing Case
The Supreme Court on November 4 fixed December 11 for hearing of an appeal filed against a High Court verdict that acquitted six former army personnel in the jail killing case. The government filed the appeal last year challenging the HC verdict in the case filed for killing four national leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. The four leaders are Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, AHM Quamruzzaman and Captain Mansur Ali. The government recently submitted a concise statement to the SC praying for upholding the lower court verdict that had awarded death penalty to three former army personnel and life term imprisonment to 12 others. On November 4, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division of SC headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain fixed the date for hearing the appeal after Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Anisul Huq, principal state counsel for the case, prayed for its early hearing.- The Daily Star November 5, 2012.
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