HC questions bail of 7 former engrs
The High Court yesterday questioned the lower court orders that granted bail to seven former engineers of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.
The engineers -- formerly of the housing and public works department -- were given bail in two cases filed over the much-discussed corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials.
Issuing seven rules, the court asked the accused engineers to explain in two weeks why the lower court orders that granted them bail should not be scrapped.
The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice SM Mozibur Rahman came up with the rules after hearing seven petitions filed by Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), challenging the orders passed by a special judge's court in Pabna.
ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan said the special judge's court of Pabna granted bail to the seven in June.
However, the Pabna court did not consider the gravity of their offenses and the bail orders were wrong, he said.
Comments