Pirojpur's former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin have sought High Court directives to scrap a lower court order that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze their bank accounts and seize documents of properties in connection with two corruption cases.

Awal and his wife Parvin today filed two separate petitions with the HC through their lawyer Sheikh Awasafur Rahman seeking cancellation of the lower court order.

In the petitions, they also requested the HC to order the ACC to release their bank accounts and property related documents, ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan, who received copies of the petitions, told The Daily Star.

He said the HC may hold hearing on the petitions today.

On May 25, the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir upheld the lower court order that asked ACC to freeze bank accounts and seize documents of properties of AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two corruption cases.

The bench rejected two appeals filed by Awal and Laila, challenging the Dhaka court orders, on the grounds that they were late in filing the appeals.

The HC bench, however, asked them to move petitions in a proper way -- under Section 561 (A) of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898.

Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka on January 17 ordered ACC to freeze 18 bank accounts and seize documents of 40 scheduled immovable properties of the two in the cases.

On September 29 last year, ACC filed the cases with its Integrated District Office-1 of Dhaka. Awal was sued for amassing Tk 33 crore illegally while Laila for acquiring Tk 10.98 crore illegally.

On December 30, 2019, ACC filed another three cases against Awal and one against Laila for occupying a piece of government land behind the land office in Pirojpur Sadar upazila and building a two-storey building on it.