BNP leader Moudud Ahmed was granted four more days to file an appeal against a High Court order to try him in grabbing a house in the capital yesterday.
The four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha granted BNP Standing Committee member Moudud until September 3.
Moudud was supposed to file the appeal yesterday. He prayed for time saying he did not receive the copies of the previous order.
Moudud represented himself during the hearing while Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
In 2013, the ACC filed the case accusing Moudud of illegally occupying a house in Gulshan.
In May, 2014 the investigators filed the charge sheet to the trial court and in September a Dhaka Court accepted it.
Moudud moved the High Court seeking review of the charges acceptance.
On Jun 23, this year, the High Court rejected his petition and Moudud then moved to the Appellate Division.
According to the case, the house at Gulshan Moudud Ahmed has been living in since 1973, actually belongs to a Pakistani national Md Ehsan who had received the rights to the house from the then Dacca Improvement Trust (DIT) in 1960.
He along with his Australian wife Inje Mariah, who was added as another owner of the house in 1965, left Bangladesh during the liberation war in 1971.
As they did not come back, the government in 1972 listed the property as abandoned.
ACC filed the case against Moudud and his brother Monjur Ahmed for grabbing the property as it was still a state property.
On Aug 23 this year, the SC stayed proceedings of the case and ordered Moudud to file a leave-to-appeal petition by August 30.