BSS, Dhaka :
The High Court yesterday set April 3 for holding hearing on three appeals in a 26-year-old graft case against Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty set the date after accepting a petition of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to become party in two appeals of the state.
Of the three appeals, one was filed by the former president, challenging 1992 order of Dhaka Special Judge Court, sentencing him to three-year imprisonment.
The other two appeals were filed by the state to increase his jail term from three-year.
“The three separate appeals were filed following a single order. So we need to hear the three appeals concurrently,” the High Court had said earlier. The now-defunct Anti-Corruption Bureau on January 8, 1991, filed the case against the former president for not depositing to state exchequer the gifts he had received as the head of state.
The graft body had accused him of embezzling more than Taka 1.90 crore.
The High Court yesterday set April 3 for holding hearing on three appeals in a 26-year-old graft case against Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty set the date after accepting a petition of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to become party in two appeals of the state.
Of the three appeals, one was filed by the former president, challenging 1992 order of Dhaka Special Judge Court, sentencing him to three-year imprisonment.
The other two appeals were filed by the state to increase his jail term from three-year.
“The three separate appeals were filed following a single order. So we need to hear the three appeals concurrently,” the High Court had said earlier. The now-defunct Anti-Corruption Bureau on January 8, 1991, filed the case against the former president for not depositing to state exchequer the gifts he had received as the head of state.
The graft body had accused him of embezzling more than Taka 1.90 crore.
