Staff Reporter :
The High Court will deliver its verdict on an appeal filed by Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya against his conviction in a graft case today.
The bench of justice Md Nazrul Isalm Talukder and Justice K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday set the date as Maya’s lawyer Advocate
Sayed Ahmed Raja placed further arguments in the court.
The bench will hear arguments to be placed by the Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan and then will announce the verdict today (Monday), Deputy Attorney General A K M Amin Uddin Manik told the reporters.
On August 14, the HC bench fixed October 7 for delivering judgement after concluding re-hearing on the appeal filed by Maya, who was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Following a leave to appeal petition filed by the ACC, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on June 14, 2015 cancelled a previous High Court verdict that had acquitted Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya from the corruption charges.
The same day, the apex court directed the HC to dispose of the appeal filed by Maya against the lower court verdict in the corruption case.
Nurul Alam, the then Assistant Director of ACC, filed the case on June 13 in 2007, with the Sutrapur Police Station, Dhaka, on charges of being the owner of illegal assets amounting to Tk 29 lakh.
A special court on February 14, 2008, convicted Maya and sentenced him to 13 years in jail, fined him Tk five crore, and ordered confiscation for his “ill-gotten” wealth about Tk six crore.
He filed the appeal with the HC on May 25, 2009, challenging the special court’s verdict. He was acquitted by the HC on October 27, 2010, after his party came to power.
In 2011, the ACC filed the petition for permission to appeal against the HC verdict.
On June 14, 2015, the Appellate Division bench headed by then Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha cancelled the High Court verdict that had acquitted Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya from the corruption charges brought against him.
The same day, the apex court directed the High Court to hold fresh hearing on the appeal filed by Maya who was on the run during the trial, did not stand in the 2008 Parliamentary elections. He returned home after his party came to power.
The High Court will deliver its verdict on an appeal filed by Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya against his conviction in a graft case today.
The bench of justice Md Nazrul Isalm Talukder and Justice K M Hafizul Alam on Sunday set the date as Maya’s lawyer Advocate
Sayed Ahmed Raja placed further arguments in the court.
The bench will hear arguments to be placed by the Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan and then will announce the verdict today (Monday), Deputy Attorney General A K M Amin Uddin Manik told the reporters.
On August 14, the HC bench fixed October 7 for delivering judgement after concluding re-hearing on the appeal filed by Maya, who was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Following a leave to appeal petition filed by the ACC, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on June 14, 2015 cancelled a previous High Court verdict that had acquitted Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya from the corruption charges.
The same day, the apex court directed the HC to dispose of the appeal filed by Maya against the lower court verdict in the corruption case.
Nurul Alam, the then Assistant Director of ACC, filed the case on June 13 in 2007, with the Sutrapur Police Station, Dhaka, on charges of being the owner of illegal assets amounting to Tk 29 lakh.
A special court on February 14, 2008, convicted Maya and sentenced him to 13 years in jail, fined him Tk five crore, and ordered confiscation for his “ill-gotten” wealth about Tk six crore.
He filed the appeal with the HC on May 25, 2009, challenging the special court’s verdict. He was acquitted by the HC on October 27, 2010, after his party came to power.
In 2011, the ACC filed the petition for permission to appeal against the HC verdict.
On June 14, 2015, the Appellate Division bench headed by then Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha cancelled the High Court verdict that had acquitted Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya from the corruption charges brought against him.
The same day, the apex court directed the High Court to hold fresh hearing on the appeal filed by Maya who was on the run during the trial, did not stand in the 2008 Parliamentary elections. He returned home after his party came to power.
