The High Court has cleared the way for a case to proceed against senior BNP leader and former minister Moudud Ahmed over illegal occupation of a house in the capital’s Gulshan area.
Rejecting a petition filed by Moudud, the court yesterday said the charges accepted against him by a lower court in the case was done in a legal and reasonable way.
The bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan issued the order.
Later Moudud, who represented himself in the court, told the journalists that he would appeal against the ruling at the Appellate Division, claiming the court had not considered his arguments reasonably.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan said there was no legal bar left to continuing the proceedings of the case in a trial court following the High Court order.
The ACC filed the case with Gulshan police on December 17, 2013 against Moudud and his brother Monjur Ahmed on charge of grabbing government land worth over Tk300 crore in Gulshan.
In September last year, a Dhaka court accepted the charges against them for trial.
