The High Court has questioned the legality of a lower court order that accepted charges against BNP leader Moudud Ahmed in a land grabbing case.
The bench of Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan yesterday issued a rule upon the Anti-Corruption Commission and the government to explain in two weeks as to why the lower court order should not be declared illegal.
It fixed May 21 for holding hearing on the rule.
The bench passed the order after hearing a revision petition filed by Moudud in November last year challenging the cognisance 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 that worth more than Tk300 crore in the capital’s Gulshan.
The case says while holding different posts as minister during 1978-2006, Moudud tried to grab the house misusing his power. He made the fake documents in the name of his expatriate brother Monjur.
During the hearing yesterday, Moudud told the court that the case was false and fabricated, and meant to harass him politically.
