Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Tuesday ordered to probe into the allegations raised against Southeast Bank Chairman Alamgir Kabir.
The Anti-Corruption Commission, Finance Ministry and Bangladesh Bank have been asked to comply with the order within three months and to submit a report in the court.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice SM Mozibur Rahman passed the order with a ruling after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), a rights organization, filed the writ petition on August 16 this year annexing some media reports.
In the ruling, the court wanted to know in four weeks as to why the inaction of the respondents in conducting a probe against the corruption allegations raised against Southeast Bank Chairman Alamgir Kabir should not be declared illegal. It also wanted to know as to why the respondents should not be directed to take legal action against Southeast Bank Chairman Alamgir Kabir on the basis of a report published in the newspapers on August 1 this year.
Finance secretary, ACC chairman, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Deputy Governor of Financial Intelligence Unit, Chairman of Southeast Bank Alamgir Kabir and Managing Director of the bank have been asked to comply with the ruling within four weeks.
Advocate Manzill Murshid appeared in the court on behalf of the petitioner, while Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik represented the state.
The court fixed November 17 for further hearing on the petition, said Manzill Murshid.
The lawyer said, “Despite allegations of corruption amounting to millions of money against Alamgir Kabir; the ACC, Bangladesh Bank or any other authority has not taken any action. However, Section 46 of the Bank Company Act 1991 and Section 19 of the ACC Act 2004 have directed to take action in case of such allegations. But neither the ACC nor Bangladesh Bank has taken any action to probe the allegations or to remove him.”
That is why we filed a writ petition as a public interest litigation, said the lawyer adding if the court doesn’t interfere there will be no trace of money deposited by the members of the public.
