The High Court has rejected a petition of Mia Nur Uddin Apu, personal secretary to exiled BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, that sought cancellation of the trail process in a bribery case.
The HC bench of Justice Shawkat Hossain and Justice Farid Ahmed passed the order on Monday afternoon.
Absconding since January 11, 2007, Apu surrendered at a Dhaka court on June 18 this year and sought bail. According to media report, he used to live in Malaysia and London before that.
On October 4 of 2007, the case was filed by the ACC against seven people on charges of paying a bribe of Tk21 crore to former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar to drop the name of business tycoon Shah Alam’s son Sanvir from the charge of killing Humayun Kabir Sabbir, a director of Bashundhara Telecommunications Network Ltd.
Sabbir was killed in a house, owned by Bashundhara Group, at Gulshan on July 5, 2006.
