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Hasina seeks bail in two more cases

Staff Correspondent
Two petitions were filed with the High Court (HC) yesterday on behalf of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, now abroad on_ parole, for bail in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant corruptioncases.
Hasina's counsel barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday submitted the petitions to the HC vacation bench of Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman and Justice Sheikh Abdul Awal.
Meanwhile, another HC bench of Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin fixed tomorrow for hearing Hasina's another bail prayer in an extortion case filed against her bv businessman Noor Ali.
Taposh told journalists that the petitions for Hasina's bail in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant corruption cases filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) w-ould be listed for hearing on tomorrow’'s cause list of the HC bench.
He said if Hasina secures bail in the three cases, there would be no legal bar to her permanent release.
Taposh also said the hearing of the bail petition in the case filed by Noor Ali was not held yesterday as the petition was placed at the bottom of the HC bench's cause list forbearing.
On July 7, the HC upon two writ petitions stayed for two months all proceedings of the Niko and bargemounted power plant cases against Hasina and issued separate rulings asking the government and the ACC to explain why the cases should not be quashed.
On September 2 last year, ACC Deputy Director Sabbir I lasan filed the barge-mounted power plant corruption case with Tejgaon Police Station against Hasina and six prominent personalities including former energy secretary DrToufiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury.
The case says Hasina and other accused through mutual understanding and use of influence helped Wartsila Power Development Ltd Consortium and its two local partners -- Summit Group and United Group -- win a deal for setting up a 100MW power plant in Khulna depriving the lowest bidder.
Sabbir filed another case with Tejgaon Police Station on
December 9 last year accusing Hasina and six others of corruption and abuse of power while awarding three "abandoned" gas fields in Chhatak, Kamta and Feni to Canadian energy company Niko Resources Ltd during the Awami League regime.
The case statement said the Niko deal caused a loss of Tk 13.6 crore to the state exchequer.
Earlier on September 16, following Hasina's writ petition the HC granted three months' ad interim bail to her in an extortion case filed by businessman Azam J Chowdhury.