A High Court bench dropped a bail petition of BNP leader Mirza Abbas in connection with a corruption case from its hearing list yesterday.
The bench of Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan passed the order as Abbas’s lawyers delayed the trial by praying multiple times for deferring the date of hearing of the petition.
The HC bench was scheduled to hear the bail petition of the BNP leader on April 21, 27, and May 4.
On May 4, Abbas’ lawyer Nitai Roy Chowdhury prayed to the bench for deferring the hearing, saying Abbas’ filing lawyer AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and senior lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, who will place the arguments, were busy with the May 20 Bangladesh Bar Council polls.
On that day, the bench fixed Tuesday for passing an order on the time prayer. Abbas’ lawyers had prayed for time thrice before the HC order of dropping the bail plea from the hearing list.
“We may place the bail petition before the same bench for its hearing later on,” AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a lawyer for Abbas told reporters yesterday following the HC order.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the corruption case with Shahbagh Police Station on March 6 last year against BNP leader Alamgir Kabir and three others on charges of causing a loss of around Tk15.52 crore to the government by allocating lands to journalists.
Abbas filed an anticipatory bail petition on April 12 with the HC, apprehending that he might be arrested in the case as the ACC prepared charge sheet against him along with other accused.