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Court order on July 7 about Mayor Khoka's charge sheet

Court correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed July 7 to decide whether it will accept the charge sheet of a case against Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka for amassing wealth worth Tk 9.76 crore illegally and giving false information to the commission.
Meantime, defence lawyers of Khoka's wife Ishmat Ara submitted a petition to the same court for further investigation into the allegations against their client
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque fixed the same date for hearing on the issue.
In the petition, the defence lawyers said the High Court (HO had earlier granted bail to their client and stayed for six months the proceedings of the case against Ishmat Ara. But the Investigation officer (IO) of the case submitted the charge sheet bypassing the HC stay order.
ACC Assistant Director Shamsul Alam, also the IO of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Khoka to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on Tuesday showing 45 people as prosecution witnesses.
The ACC could not submit the probe report of the case as the HC earlier stayed the proceedings of the case against co-accused Ishmat
The IO prayed for issuing arrest warrant against Khoka and the order to attach his properties.
He also prayed for discharging Khoka’s son Ishrak Hossain and daughter Sarika Sadeque as the charges brought against them were not proved.
The charge sheet has been prepared under sections 26 (2) and 27 (1) of the ACC Act. 2004. and section 15 of the Emergency Power Rules, 2007.
In the charge sheet, the IO mentioned that Khoka submitted his wealth statement on December 6 last year, saying that he has wealth worth Tk 9.97 crore. The ACC in a probe found that he had amassed wealtli worthTk 9.76 crore illegally.
The ACC also found that he concealed information about his wealth worth Tk 96,503,609 in the statement submitted to the commission.
The ACC filed the case against Khoka, his wife Ishmat Ara, son Ishrak and daughter Sarika on April 2 this year on charges of accumulating wealth illegally and concealing wealth information from the commission.
The complainant accused Khoka. also the president of BNP city unit, of concealing information about his wealth worth Tk 10 crore in the statement submitted to the ACC.
Khoka's wife, son and daughter were accused in the case for abetting him.