HC scraps case against MK Alamgir
The High Court yesterday quashed a corruption case against Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir.
The erstwhile Bureau of Anti-Corruption on May 13, 2002, had filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station on charge of attempted misappropriation of public money worth Tk 81.60 crore when he was the state minister for planning in 2000-2001.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Farid Ahmed handed down the verdict after hearing a petition filed by the home minister for quashing the proceedings in the case.
In October, 2002, the HC had stayed the proceedings in the case and also issued a rule upon the government to explain why the case proceedings should not be quashed.
ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that the anti-graft body was yet to decide whether it would move an appeal before the Supreme Court against the HC verdict.
Barrister M Amir-Ul Islam appeared for the home minister.
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