House in US: Probe report in SK Sinha graft case on Aug 4

A Dhaka court on Monday (June 3) set August 4 for submission of the probe report in a case filed against former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha (SK Sinha) and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha for laundering money.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case as it found information that former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha (S K Sinha) had bought a three-storey building in the United States (US).

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge As-Shams Jaglul Hossain passed the order as the ACC failed to submit the probe report today.

Deputy Director of the ACC Md Gulshan Anwar Pradhan filed the case on March 31 last year.

According to the case details, former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha has been accused of illegally earning and laundering $280,000 through Ananta Kumar’s bank accounts in the United States when SK Sinha was the chief justice.

With that money, SK Sinha’s younger brother Narendra Kumar Sinha bought a building in New Jersey area.