Court Correspondent :
The Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka yesterday fixed November 23 to submit the investigation report in a case filed against former Chief Justice (CJ) Surendra Kumar Sinha for abusing his position and securing the allotment of a plot of land illegally from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk).
The case details reached the court of Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes on October 7 while the court accepted the case details and fixed the date for submission of the investigation report.
Earlier on Thursday, October 7, Deputy Director of Anti-Corruption Com-mission (ACC) Gulshan Anwar Pradhan filed the case with the organisation’s Integrated District Office, Dhaka-1 against former CJ Surendra Kumar Sinha for abusing the power of his position and securing the allotment of a plot of land from Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (Rajuk).
SK Sinha, lives abroad, and faces charges of accumulating wealth illegally.
According to the case statement, SK Sinha had earlier received a plot of land in his own name from Rajuk, in Uttara residential area.
Later, he allegedly, secured a three- katha plot in Rajuk’s Purbachal Project in the name of his brother Narendra Kumar Sinha, using his position. Later, he upgraded the plot to a five-katha-plot.
Apparently, transferring the plot from Purbachal, SK Sinha got a plot approved by Rajuk in Uttara’s Sector-4 and paid a total of Tk75 lakh for it. Thereafter, he built a nine-storey building on the plot.
