Court Correspondent :
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected Jatiya Party Chief HM Ershad’s appeal seeking review of its earlier decision that did not allow the concerned court to record the depositions of the witnesses again in the radar purchase graft case filed against Ershad and others.
The apex court passed the order for a subordinate
court dismissing a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seeking review of the Appellate Division’s order. The three-judge bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha came up with the order after hearing on the review petition.
ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told newsmen that the trial court now will resume the trial proceedings of the case on the basis of the already recorded statements of the witnesses and thus the trial proceedings will come to the end.
However, the deadline for disposing off the trial by March 31, may not be applicable now following yesterday’s order of the apex court, he added.
The now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption filed the case against Ershad and three others in 1992. Ershad in collusion with others allegedly caused a loss of Tk 64.04 crore to the national exchequer by purchasing radar from the USA while he was in power, said the case statement.
On August 12, 1995, the trial court framed charges against Ershad, former air Chiefs Sultan Mahmud and Mamtazuddin Ahmed and United Traders Limited Director AKM Musa, has been absconding from the beginning.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected Jatiya Party Chief HM Ershad’s appeal seeking review of its earlier decision that did not allow the concerned court to record the depositions of the witnesses again in the radar purchase graft case filed against Ershad and others.
The apex court passed the order for a subordinate
court dismissing a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seeking review of the Appellate Division’s order. The three-judge bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha came up with the order after hearing on the review petition.
ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told newsmen that the trial court now will resume the trial proceedings of the case on the basis of the already recorded statements of the witnesses and thus the trial proceedings will come to the end.
However, the deadline for disposing off the trial by March 31, may not be applicable now following yesterday’s order of the apex court, he added.
The now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption filed the case against Ershad and three others in 1992. Ershad in collusion with others allegedly caused a loss of Tk 64.04 crore to the national exchequer by purchasing radar from the USA while he was in power, said the case statement.
On August 12, 1995, the trial court framed charges against Ershad, former air Chiefs Sultan Mahmud and Mamtazuddin Ahmed and United Traders Limited Director AKM Musa, has been absconding from the beginning.
