Tk 304cr graft case: ACC seeks stay on HC bail to 2 former NSU trustees
The Anti-Corruption Commission today (November 13, 2022) filed two petitions with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court verdict that granted conditional bail to two former members of North South University's trustee board -- MA Kashem and Rehana Rahman -- in a Tk 304 crore money laundering case.
In the petitions, the ACC said there are specific allegations against Kashem and Rehana of corruption and therefore, they cannot be granted bail in the case, ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
He said the chamber judge of the Appellate Division may hold hearing on the petitions this afternoon.
On November 10, the High Court granted conditional bail to Kashem and Rehana in the case.
According to conditions, accused Kashem and Rehana cannot enter the NSU premises and cannot leave the country with permission from the court concerned.
On May 22, the HC bench led by Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder rejected anticipatory bail petitions filed by the then four members of NSU trustee board in the same case and also ordered Shahbagh police to arrest them immediately and to produce them before the trial court in 24 hours in connection with the case.
Accordingly, the four accused -- MA Kashem, Benajir Ahmed, Rehana Rahman and Mohammed Shajahan, who appeared before the HC bench on that day for bail, were produced before the trial court on May 23.
On May 23, the lower court sent them to jail rejecting their bail prayers in the case.
The ACC filed the case against the four accused and also NSU Board of Trustees Chairperson Azim Uddin Ahmed. Ashaloy Housing and Developers Managing Director Amin Md Hilaly was also made accused in the case.
ACC Deputy Director Farid Ahmed Patwary filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka on May 5.
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