Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Monday assigned a two-member High Court bench to hear three separate appeals filed by Jatiya Party President HM Ershad and the government over his conviction in a graft case.
The new bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakraborty would fix a date to hear the appeals, ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune.
On March 23, a High Court bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus transferred the graft case dockets to the chief justice for taking decisions, instead of delivering the verdict on Ershad’s appeal against his three-year sentence.
The bench said that along with Ershad’s appeal against his conviction, two other appeals filed by the government in 1992 against the same verdict should be heard together.
The government pleaded for increasing the sentence of Ershad.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) became a party of the case in 2012.
Two years later, the High Court had started the appeal hearing. However, the proceedings were stalled and the hearing resumed again after ACC filed a plea seeking its revival on November 30 last year.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
