SC upholds ACC notices to quiz Amir Khasru

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the notices issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) asking BNP leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury to appear before the commission for quizzing over corruption allegations.

The apex court dropped a petition filed by Amir Khasru from its hearing list, that sought stay on the HC order that rejected his writ petition challenging the ACC notice.

A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after hearing arguments from counsels for Amir Khasru.

Amir Khasru's lawyer Barrister Moudud Ahmed told the court that his client has not received the HC order on the writ petition.

Amir Khasru will move a leave-to-appeal petition with the SC against the HC order after receiving its certified copy, he added. 

ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that there is no legal bar for the ACC to conduct an inquiry into the corruption allegations against Amir Khasru following the SC order.

Meanwhile, the same SC bench yesterday upheld HC orders that granted bail to Amir Khasru in two separate cases filed over recent student protests.

The bench dismissed two petitions filed by the government against the HC orders of bail. The cases were filed in Dhaka and Chattogram on charges of provoking the student protests for safe roads, and conspiring to destabilise the country.

The HC in first week of September granted bail to Amir Khasru in the cases.