Documents of S K Sinha case at ACC

Staff Correspondent: The documents of corruption case filed against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has been sent to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The general recording (GR) division of Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Court on Tuesday sent the documents to ACC’s secretary for taking further steps in this regard.

On September 27, Bangladesh National Alliance president Nazmul Huda filed the case with Shahbagh police station accusing Justice S K Sinha of demanding Tk 3.25 crore bribe from him and misusing power.

On September 28, the documents were sent to GR division from Shahbag Police Station.

According the case statement filed by Nazmul Huda, He Huda) filed the case as Justice SK Sinha in 2017, when S K Sinha was chief justice, demanded bribe from him.

He [Sinha] called Huda in his chamber and demanded the bribe. As declined to pay, he took some unconstitutional steps against me misusing his power as the chief justice.

On November 8, 2017, the High Court reduced Nazmul Huda’s jail term to four years from seven years, finding him guilty of taking Tk 2.40 crore in bribe from owners of two construction firms in 2005.

It had also reduced the jail term of Huda’s wife Sigma Huda, also human rights activist.

The court had also directed him (Huda) to surrender to the trial court in 45 days after receiving the verdict.

Huda said that he could not surrender to the trial court since the High Court was yet to release full verdict.

The High Court gave the verdict after rehearing two appeals filed by Huda and Sigma against the convictions handed down by a special judge’s court on August 26, 2007.

On March 20, 2011, another High Court bench had set aside the convictions of Huda and Sigma on the ground that they were prosecuted illegally on orders issued by the commission secretary when there was no commissioner at the commission.

On December 1, 2014, after hearing the commission’s appeal, the Appellate Division stayed their acquittals and directed the High Court to rehear their appeals considering the merit of the trial court verdict. Justice Sinha was in the Appellate Division then.
 

risingbd/Dhaka/October 02, 2018/Mamun Khan/A K Azad