Former caretaker-government adviser Justice Fazlul Huq, accused of accumulating Tk 89.81 lakh in illegal wealth and hiding information from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), submitted bail bond to the trial court yesterday.
Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court asked the former Appellate Division judge to furnish a bail bond of Tk 20,000 mentioning two guarantors in it.
Earlier on Thursday, the High Court granted three months' anticipatory bail to him and asked him to submit the bail bond in the same period.
The ACC filed the case against Fazlul Huq on April 13 this year as he allegedly concealed information about wealth in his statement to the commission on November 26 last year.
On September 2, ACC Assistant Director Mohammad Ibrahim, also the investigation officer (IO), submitted the charge sheet to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka, showing the retired judge as fugitive and 38 people as prosecution witnesses.
The trial court next day issued warrant for his arrest and ordered the attachment of his property.
The IO in his charge sheet stated that Fazlul Huq made a fortune of over Tk 89.81 lakh through illegal means and hid information on Tk 90.97 lakh of his wealth from the commission.
He said the accused swapped Tk 12.99 crore between different bank accounts in the names of his son Dr Afzal Hossain Raj, son-in-law Tariqur Rahman Prince and Raj's friends Abdul Malek, Sujaul Hassan Sujan and Ataul Haque.