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High Court orders Minister Mosharraf to surrender in trial court
Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain has been ordered to surrender in court in a case of acquiring wealth beyond known sources of income.
Published : 21 July 2016, 08:25 AM
Updated : 21 July 2016, 09:31 AM
The High Court has given him six weeks to turn himself in at the trial court in the case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
On Thursday, the bench of justices M Enayetur Rahim and Amir Hossain lifted a freeze on the case’s proceedings.
The order came as Mosharraf’s lawyers told the court that they will not move any further on the matter.
ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan said that the court scrapped a previous rule issued on the matter. “There are no hurdles for the investigation or the legal proceedings as the stay order has been lifted.”
The case, filed in November 2007 during the military-backed caretaker government regime, accuses Mosharraf of acquiring assets of Tk 30 million beyond his known sources of income.
In August next year, the Awami League leader from Chittagong, moved the High Court with a petition to scrap the charges.
The court had then stayed the legal proceedings, granted him bail and issued a rule.
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