HC allows ACC to move case against Ershad
The vacation bench of The High Court yesterday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to become a party in a corruption case filed against former military ruler and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad over 21 years ago.
Khurshid Alam Khan, the counsel for the ACC, said they would appeal to the HC for holding a hearing on the case for its speedy disposal after July 8.
The then Bureau of Anti-Corruption had filed the case in 1991 on charges of misappropriating Tk over 1.90 crore, and not depositing presidential gifts he had received between December 11, 1983 and December 6, 1990 to the state exchequer.
On February 3, 1992, the then Dhaka Divisional Special judge sentenced Ershad to three years' imprisonment and directed the authorities concerned of the government to confiscate the money and a Toyota Land-Cruiser jeep from him.
After a short hearing on an appeal from Ershad, the same year the HC granted bail to him, stayed that lower court verdict and also called for the records of the case.
The appeal is still pending with the court.
The ACC, on June 13 this year, submitted a petition to the HC to become a party in the case to move against the appeal.
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