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Anti-graft body bill set to be passed on February 17

Staff Correspondent
A much-talked-about bill seeking to form an independent anti-corruption commission to cut graft is set to be passed on February 17.
The parliamentary standing committee on the law ministry yesterday finalised its scrutiny report on the Independent anti-Corruption Commission Bill, 2003 with some amendments and decided to submit the report to the Jatiya Sangsad on February 15.
The bill was placed in parliament on July 10 last year before it was sent to the standing committee for scrutiny.
"After submission of the report by die committee, I will pilot the bill in the Jatiya Sangsad for passage on February 17," Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed told The Daily Star yesterday, emerging from the committee meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
The committee recommended
that cases under the law would be tackled in special judge’s courts.
The commission will assign its officials to probe into allegations of corruption and its commissioners will also have the authority to investigate any alleged corruption.
"The investigation officers of the commission will enjoy the authority an officcr-in-chargc of a police station to investigate the cases," Khandaker Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, chairman of the standing committee, told newspersons after the meeting.
The parliamentary body, comprised of eight BNP legislators, held a series of meetings to finalise the report and suggested dropping the eligibility of an officer of the armed forces to become a commissioner of the commission.
The proposed bill said people with 20 years of experience in law, education, administration, the judiciary or armed forces would be eligible for the posts of commissioner.
The committee inserted a newsub-clause in the bill, proposing financial autonomy for the commission like the Supreme Court and the Jatiya Sangsad.
The meeting also finalised the structure of the five-member selection committee of the commission bringing together a judge of the appellate division of the Supreme Court as its chairman and a judge of the High Court Division, the chairman of the Public Service Commission, the comptroller and auditor general and the last retired cabinet secretary as its members.
The selection committee will propose the names of six people to the president for appointment as the commissioners, of whom the presi-
dent will choose three.
Initially, the bill kept the provision of a six-member selection committee with the finance and law ministers on it.
The delay to constitute the commission, a poll pledge of the four-party ruling alliance leader BNP, has drawn flak from the civil society, especially from lawyers, and the opposition.