‘False case’: Nazmul Huda charged for suing SK Sinha

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against former BNP minister Nazmul Huda in a case filed over the lodging of a fake case against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

Huda, now on bail, pleaded not guilty and demanded justice after Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of the Special Judge's Court-9 of Dhaka read out the charges to him, The Daily Star learnt from court officials present.

Earlier in the day, the judge dismissed a petition submitted for relieving him of the charges. The judge then fixed May 17 for starting the case's trial.

On November 1 last year, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director Benjir Ahmed, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against the former minister.

Huda filed the case against Sinha with Shahbagh Police Station on September 27, 2018. He said Sinha had demanded a bribe from him for changing the judgement of a graft case that had already been disposed of.

The ACC found the allegations baseless and false after probing the case for one and a half years.

The national anti-graft watchdog submitted the final report on December 4 of 2019 absolving Sinha from the charges of the case.

ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka on February 19, 2020.

On November 9 last year, Sinha, who is now in the US, was jailed for 11 years in a money laundering case.