STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of a section of the ACC rules that curtailed individual’s right to directly lodge corruption case with the court.

The court issued a rule asking the ACC and the government to explain in 10 days why section 13(3) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (Amendment) Rules-2019 should not be declared illegal and scrapped as the section allegedly damaged the individual’s right to directly file corruption case with the court and curtailed the court’s authority to directly accept such case for trial.

The bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo came up with rule.