HC quashes 3 cases against Mohiuddin
The High Court yesterday quashed three corruption cases against former Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury filed in 2003.
The now defunct Bureau of Anti Corruption (BAC) had filed the cases against Mohiuddin and the owner of Nupur Cinema Hall in Chittagong on charges of misappropriating Tk 9 lakh in different fiscal years from 1994 to 2001 by reducing holding tax of the cinema hall to Tk 5.5 lakh from Tk 17.55 lakh.
BAC's investigation officer pressed corruption charges against Mohiuddin on November 12 of 2003 and the Chittagong Divisional Special judge took the charges into cognisance on November 30 in the same year.
The Chittaging court, however, granted bail to Mohiuddin.
Mohiuddin filed three separate petitions in 2004 with the HC seeking proceedings of cases to be quashed.
The HC on September 18 of 2004 stayed the proceedings of the cases and issued a rule asking the government to explain why they should not be quashed.
After holding hearing on the rule, the bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice Mahmudul Hoque gave the verdict.
Mohiuddin's counsel Hari Sadhan Dev Brahman told The Daily Star that his client is accused in total 22 cases and eight of them have been scrapped.
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