Graft Case against Mosharraf
High Court quashes proceedings
The High Court yesterday scrapped the proceedings of a corruption case against former Awami League public works minister Mosharraf Hossain.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on November 22, 2007 filed the case with Double Mooring Police Station in Chittagong against Mosharraf and two others.
According to the case statement, the former minister sold 1.44 bighas of government land in Chittagong city's Agrabad commercial area at a nominal price of Tk 1.69 crore to the Hotel Golden Inn owners Rafiqul Anwar alias Sona Rafiq, former AL lawmaker, and his brother M Fakhrul Anwar on July 14, 2000.
Violating the tender conditions, the hotel owners resold the land to the owner of Hotel Salmer for Tk 4.61 crore, causing a Tk 2.92 crore loss to the exchequer.
The HC bench quashed the proceedings against Mosharraf, saying the charges against the accused were not specifically disclosed in the case.
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