The High Court today cleared the way for the lower court concerned to run the trial of a corruption case filed over misappropriation of Tk 243 crore through disappearing of over 1.43 tonnes of coal from Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) in Dinajpur.

The HC rejected three separate petitions filed by six former BCMCL officials, who are accused in the case, challenging the trial court order that on November 25 last year framed charges against them.

The accused in the petitions sought exemption from the charges of the case.

The accused petitioners include former BCMCL officials Md Abdul Aziz Khan, SM Nurul Aurangazeb,  Md Kamruzzaman, Md Aminuzzaman, Khurshidul Hasan and Abu Taher Md Nur-uz-Zaman Chowdhury, Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.

Today, the HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus Zaman and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan rejected all three revision petitions considering that those were not presented properly.

Lawyers Rokanuddin Mahmud and Mustafizur Rahman Khan appeared for the petitioners.

Md Anisur Rahman, manager (admin) of the coal mining company, filed the case accusing 19 people with Parbatipur Police Station in Dinajpur on July 24, 2018 in connection with disappearance of the coal.

According to the case statement, the accused officials were behind the missing 1.43 lakh tonnes of coal. The estimated market price of the coal is over Tk 243,28,82,501.84, which the officials allegedly misappropriated between January 2006 and July 19, 2018.