The High Court on Monday ordered former Jatiya Party general secretary ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader to surrender within two weeks in a graft case.
Bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir hayat Khan passed the order with issuing a rule.
On January 21, 2021, Ruhul Amin was exempted from a 30-year-old graft case by Dhaka Divisional Special Judge Court.
The Anti Corruption Commission later moved to the High Court seeking review of the order.
“The court issued a rule questioning why the exemption order will not be repealed and asked Ruhul Amin to surrender within two weeks of getting the order,” said advocate AKM Fazlul Haque, representing ACC at the court.
On November 19, 1991, Md Delwar Hossain, deputy director of then Corruption Bureau, filed a case against Ruhul Amin at Tejgaon police station for taking financial benefit during his tenure as Textile and Jute minister. He was accused of illegally giving a work order to an organization worth Tk31.54 lakh.
In 1989, another case was filed against him at Ramna police station for embezzling Tk40,643 in his tenure as the health minister. In that case, the trial court exonerated Ruhul Amin on December 6, last year.
On March 7, this year, the High Court ordered him to surrender within four weeks upon receiving an appeal from ACC.