The High Court has summoned BNP's Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on an appeal filed against the BNP leader's acquittal in a money laundering case.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain passed the order on Tuesday.
The court fixed February 14 as the next date for hearing the appeal.
The HC also ordered the authorities concerned to publish advertisement in newspapers informing that the HC has admitted the appeal filed by the ACC for hearing and summoned the BNP leader, said Anti Corruption Commission counsel Khurshid Alam Khan.
The ACC filed a case against Tarique and his friend and business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun in October 2009 for laundering the money to Singapore between 2003 and 2007.
On November 17, 2013, a Dhaka court acquitted Tarique, who has been living in the UK for the last eight years, and sentenced Mamun to seven years' imprisonment and slapped him with a Tk40 crore fine.
The ACC then filed an appeal with the HC on December 5, 2013, challenging Tarique's acquittal.
Following the appeal, the HC on January 19, 2015, asked the lower court to send it the case records and ordered Tarique to surrender before the trial court in the case.
The HC, however, asked the trial court to grant him bail after his surrender.
The money laundering case is one of 16 cases filed against Tarique.
