The Supreme Court today extended for a week its chamber judge’s order that stayed the trial proceedings against former BNP law minister Moudud Ahmed in Niko corruption case.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Moudud for extending the stay order on the trial proceeding against him.

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Earlier on April 13, the SC stayed until today (May 7) the trial proceedings against the former BNP lawmaker.

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The ACC filed the case in 2007 bringing allegation that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and several others abused power to award a gas exploration and extraction deal to Canadian company Niko when she was prime minister from 2001 to 2006.