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SC upholds bail orders in ACC cases

Staff Correspondent
The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld the High Court (HO orders that granted bail to former minister Mirza Abbas, former state minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, former lawmakers Mosaddek Ali Falu and Miza Azam, controversial businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun and Uttara Group Chairman Giridhariial Modi in separate criminal cases.
The government, the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) and some individuals filed the cases against them on different charges.
Responding to separate petitions filed by the accused, the HC in recent months granted them bail in the cases and also stayed the proceedings of seme of the cases.
The prosecutions filed petitions
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with the Supreme Court for staying the High Court orders. After hearing the petitions, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Joynul Abedin yesterday passed 'no' orders on most of the applications and rejected a fewofthem.
The chamber judge asked the petitioners to file regular appeals against the High Court orders.
The lawyers concerned said following the apex court orders the HC orders granting bail to the accused will remain valid.
The chamber judge upon an application also extended for six weeks its earlier order staying the trial proceedings of a corruption case against formerlawminister Moudud Ahmed.
I Meanwhile, a vacation Imuh of the High Court (HC) on separate petitions yesterday extended for four months its earlier orders granting bail to about 70 people, including BNP leader Tarique Rahman, in different cases.
The same day, three special courts set up in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban area yesterday exempted Awami League Joint Secretary and former state minister Obaidul Quader, who is now in India for treatment, from personal appearance in three cases against him.
CASE AGAINST ABBAS.
MOUDUD. AZAM
The ACC filed a case against detained former minister for housing and public works Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas on August 16thisyearon charges of amassing wealth through illegal means.
Ln the case filed with Ramna Police Station, ACC Assistant Director Shafiul Alam stated that the accused amassed wealth worthTk 33,48,581 illegally and did not mention it in the statements submitted to thecommission.
On February 25, the joint forces arrested Abbas on the ACC premises at Segunbagicha in the city.
On September 16 last year, the ACC filed a case against Moudud Ahmed with Gulshan Police Station on charge of possessing wealth beyond his known sources of income and withholding information about his assets.
In the case, it was alleged that the former law minister had kept back information about his actual wealth and the wealth accumulated through illegal means in the statement submitted to the ACC.
On January 10 this year, ACC Deputy Director Mobara Khanam filed a graft case against Mirza Azam and his wife Aleya Azam with Ramna Police Station.
In the case statement, the complainant said Azam accumulated wealth worth Tk 5,362,645 illegally and concealed information about his wealth worth Tk 6,434,295 from the commission.
Aleya Azam was charged with abetting her husband in acquiring the illegal weal th.