SC stays graft case against Hasina

Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhury of SC chamber passed the order upon a petition moved by Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud, counsellor for Hasina.

On November 23, an HC division bench comprising Justice Sharif Uddin

Chaklader and Justice AFM Ali Asgar delisted the petition for setting aside the graft case against Hasina and six others involving the Mig29 purchase deal and did not extend an earlier stay order on the trial process.

The Bureau of Anti-Corruption, now defunct, filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station, two months after the BNP-led alliance government came to power in October 2001.

Hasina along with six others were accused of causing a loss of $ 124 million, Tk 720 crore, in the purchase deal of the eight Russian-made Mig29 warplanes for Bangladesh, while she was in power.