SC asks lower court to finish trial in three months

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for three months a High Court order that granted bail of BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a money laundering case.

The apex court also asked the lower court concerned to finish the trial proceedings of the case against Mosharraf in three months.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Anti-Corruption Commission against the HC order.

Mosharraf will not get released from jail in three months following the SC order, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.

Earlier on August 18, the HC granted permanent bail to the BNP leader in the case, which was filed by the ACC on February 6 last year on charge of amassing over Tk 9.53 crore between 2001 and 2006 and depositing that into a bank account in the United Kingdom.