Two separate petitions will be submitted to the High Court (HC) tomorrow (Monday) for bail in favour of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, now abroad on parole, in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant corruption cases filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC).
Hasina’s counsel barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday told The Daily Star that he would submit the bail petitions to the vacation bench of the HC comprising Justice Md Anwarul Haque and Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury on Monday.
On September 23 an HC bench comprising Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman and Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal sent back the same bail petitions since the bench did not have the jurisdiction to hear the petitions filed on September 22.
Meanwhile, another HC bench of Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin will deliver order tomorrow on another bail prayer filed by Hasina in an extortion case filed against her by businessman Noor Ali. This bench has recently fixed the date for delivering order on the case.
Earlier on July 7 the HC stayed for two months all proceedings against Hasina in connection with the two cases and issued separate rules on the government and the ACC to explain why the cases against her should not be quashed.
ACC Deputy Director Sabbir Hasan filed the barge-mounted power plant case with the Tejgaon Police Station on September 2 last year accusing Hasina and six others of helping Wartsila Power Development Ltd Consortium and its two local partners to win a power-plant deal depriving the lowest bidder.
The ACC official filed the other case with the Tejgaon Police Station on December 9 the same year accusing the AL chief and six others of corruption and abuse of power while awarding three abandoned gas fields to Canadian energy company the Niko Resources Ltd incurring a loss of Tk 13.6 crore to the state exchequer.
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