Staff Reporter :
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for conducting a probe into the assets belongs to ‘so-called’ Pir (saint) of Rajarbagh Shareef, Dillur Rahman, and his different institutions in different parts of the country and the sources of those assets.
An Appellate Division Bench headed by Justice Muhammad Imman Ali dismissed an appeal petition filed against a High Court order that asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to conduct the probe for determining the assets.
Earlier on September 19, the High Court directed the Counter Terrorism and Transitional Crime (CTTC) Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police to find out if Rajarbagh Darbar Shareef Pir Dillur Rahman had any connection with militancy.
It also ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to determine the assets belonging to Rajarbagh Pir Dillur Rahman and his different institutions in different parts of the country and the sources of those assets.
Both the CTTC and the ACC were asked to submit reports by November 30.
The High Court Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order and a rule after hearing a writ petition that sought its order on the authorities to take appropriate actions against Pir Dillur Rahman and his disciples for filing vexatious cases against them.
In the ruling the High Court wanted to know from the respondents to explain in four weeks as to why they should not be directed to take appropriate legal action against Pir Dillur Rahman and his disciples for filing false cases against the writ petitioners.
Later Muhammad Mofizul Islam, one of the disciples of Pir Dillur Rahman, filed a leave to appeal petition against the High Court order.
Upon hearing Justice Obaidul Hassan, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division of the SC, on October 11 passed ‘no order’ on the leave to appeal petition and sent the petition to the full Bench of the apex court for detail hearing.
The regular Bench of the Appellate Division on Tuesday dismissed the petition that was filed against the High Court order.
On 16 September, eight families filed a writ petition with the HC, seeking its intervention in cases filed by the Pir and his disciples across the country. The families claimed the cases were logged to “harass them and to grab their properties”.
Lawyer Murad Reza appeared in the hearing on behalf of Rajarbahg Pir, while Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir represented the victim families.
Now there is no bar to comply with the High Court order to conduct the probe into the assets of the Pir, said lawyer Shishir Manir.
Shishir Manir earlier said that he annexed a report of the National Human Rights Commission with the writ petition saying that Pir Dillur Rahman and his disciples who filed the false cases against the petitioners may have a connection with the militants.
Earlier an inquiry report prepared by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police stated that involvement of Rajarbagh Pir has been found in filing 49 cases against a resident of Dhaka’s Shantibagh area on charges of rape, woman repression, human trafficking and others.
Some followers of that Pir filed the cases to take possession of house and land the resident, Md Akramul Ahsan Kanchan, also read the report submitted in the High Court.
