Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to former Supreme Court judge Justice Joynul Abedin for six weeks in connection with a notice issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2010 seeking his bank statements.
The Bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah came up with the order and rule after hearing a petition filed by Joynul seeking anticipatory bail fearing that he might be arrested when he will go to submit the bank statements. The HC also issued a rule asking the government and ACC to explain in four weeks why Justice Joynul, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, should not be granted regular bail in connection with the ACC notice.
Justice Joynul headed the one-man judicial enquiry into the grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. His probe report found “foreign enemy link” with the attack.
Deputy Attorney General Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman
Kabir said that the government will move an appeal before the Appellate Division challenging the HC order of bail.
Barrister Mainul Hosein moved the bail petition on behalf of the former justice. He said, for the last seven years the ACC has been harassing his client under the guise of investigation and on the basis of newspaper reports he has reason to anticipate arrest although no FIR has been filed against him. As no FIR has been filed so there is no case of corruption against him, merely investigation, so he is entitled to get anticipatory bail by way of protection against arbitrary arrest.
Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan appeared before the court on behalf of the ACC.
ACC’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan, however, said that there is no specific case against Joynul Abedin.
The High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to former Supreme Court judge Justice Joynul Abedin for six weeks in connection with a notice issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2010 seeking his bank statements.
The Bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah came up with the order and rule after hearing a petition filed by Joynul seeking anticipatory bail fearing that he might be arrested when he will go to submit the bank statements. The HC also issued a rule asking the government and ACC to explain in four weeks why Justice Joynul, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, should not be granted regular bail in connection with the ACC notice.
Justice Joynul headed the one-man judicial enquiry into the grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Dhaka’s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. His probe report found “foreign enemy link” with the attack.
Deputy Attorney General Shaikh AKM Moniruzzaman
Kabir said that the government will move an appeal before the Appellate Division challenging the HC order of bail.
Barrister Mainul Hosein moved the bail petition on behalf of the former justice. He said, for the last seven years the ACC has been harassing his client under the guise of investigation and on the basis of newspaper reports he has reason to anticipate arrest although no FIR has been filed against him. As no FIR has been filed so there is no case of corruption against him, merely investigation, so he is entitled to get anticipatory bail by way of protection against arbitrary arrest.
Anti-Corruption Commission lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan appeared before the court on behalf of the ACC.
ACC’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan, however, said that there is no specific case against Joynul Abedin.
