The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict that had acquitted BNP leader Nazmul Huda in a corruption case.
The four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order in response to a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The court also sent the appeal to the High Court for its fresh hearing to examine whether the lower court verdict that acquitted him was correct or not.
On April 3, 2008, a Dhaka court sentenced Huda to 12 years’ imprisonment for illegally amassing wealth and concealing information in a statement submitted to ACC. Huda filed an appeal with the High Court and the court acquitted him on August 18, 2010.
Meanwhile, the apex court also scrapped former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka’s acquittal in a graft case filed over irregularities in recruitment yesterday. The four-member Appellate Division bench passed the order.
There is no legal bar for the trial court to continue proceedings of the case against the BNP leader at the lower court, ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan said.
On June 29, 2010, the ACC filed the case against Khoka and 12 high officials of DCC on charges of irregularities in recruiting 49 officials to the DCC and in promoting two officials between October 18, 2006 and November 20, 2006.
