The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the Anti-Corruption Commission to resume trial proceedings of a corruption case against former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib.
The ACC had filed the case on July 3, 2008 against Habib on charge of illegally amassing wealth worth Tk 87.94 lakh and concealing information about it.
The HC yesterday rejected a petition filed by the BNP lawmaker for quashing the proceedings of the case and vacated its earlier order in 2008, which had stayed the proceedings.
The HC bench of Justice Khondker Musa Khaled and Justice Md Nazrul Talukder came up with the verdict saying that it cannot accept any petition for quashing a case which is under investigation.
ACC's lawyer Barrister Abdul Halim told The Daily Star that following the HC verdict there is no there is no legal bar to his client running the corruption case at the lower court.
In July of 2008, another HC bench had stayed the proceedings of the case and issued a rule upon the ACC to explain why the case should not be scrapped.