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Download PDF The Supreme Court chamber judge yesterday rejected Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and government appeal for stay on the High Court ruling declaring the ACC notice served on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina for submitting her wealth statement illegal.
However, the chamber judge referred the application to the regular bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for hearing on December 2.
The ACC and the government moved the application for halting the High Court judgment delivered on November 21.
Chamber Judge M Hassan Ameen also passed a similar order on government petition seeking stay on operation of the November 22 High Court order granting bail to detained BNP leader Big General (retd) ASM Hannan Shah.
The SC yesterday stayed the operation of the High Court order halting the proceedings of an extortion case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against detained former health minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim.
The court passed the order upon an application filed by the ACC.
Earlier, on November 19, the High Court, on a petition, stayed the proceedings of the extortion case.
On July 13, Azam J Chowdhury, managing director of East Coast Trading Pvt Ltd., filed the extortion case against Sheikh Selim and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
In his case filed with Gulshan Police Station, the complainant stated that Sheikh Selim and Sheikh Hasina took Tk 2.99 crore for awarding a contract to him for a power plant at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj.
On another application moved by the ACC, the SC also stayed the Hight Court Order that halted the proceedings of a corruption case against detained former law minister and BNP stalwart Moudud Ahmed.
The High Court yesterday stayed the proceedings of the sedition case against Proshika Chairman Dr Qazi Farooq Ahmed and six others.
After brief hearing of a petition filed by the accused, a division bench comprising Justice M Mozammel Hossain and Justice Syed AB Mahmudul Huq passed the interim stay order and issued a rule upon government to explain why the case pending with the lower court should not be quashed.
On June 20, 2004, police filed the sedition case with Pallabi Police Station against Qazi Farooq and six others.
According to the case statement, the accused in connivance with others got involved in a “plot to overthrow” the BNP-led alliance government by mobilising NGO workers from across the country.
Dr Kamal Hossain appeared for the accused.
The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court order halting a corruption case filed by the ACC against detained Giasuddin Al Mamun on charges of amassing huge wealth through illegal means.
A seven-member full court of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice M Ruhul Amin, passed the order following an application filed by the ACC.
The SC order facilitates the ACC to go with the case proceedings against Mamun.
On another application filed by the ACC, the court also stayed the HC order in connection with a corruption case faced by industrialist Salman F Rahman.
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