GRAFT CASE
Maya seeks review of SC order
Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya filed a petition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday seeking a review of its earlier order that scrapped his acquittal in a corruption case. Maya filed the review petition following an apex court order that gave him the permission on Sunday to file a review petition against its orders scrapping the HC verdict and sent his appeal to HC for fresh hearing.
Advocate Sayed Ahmed Raja, a lawyer for lawmaker Maya, said the SC will fix a date for hearing the review petition.
In his petition Maya mentioned that the High Court had rightly acquitted him of the corruption charges and there was no illegality in the HC judgment.
On June 14, this year, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court scrapped a High Court order acquitting Maya in a graft case.
The Appellate Division also asked the High Court to rehear the case in which Maya, also a senior Awami League leader, was jailed for 13 years by a Dhaka special court in 2008.
On October 27, 2010, ACC Assistant Director Nurul Alam filed the case with Sutrapur Police Station in Dhaka accusing Maya of amassing illegal property worth about Tk 3 million.
A special court on February 14, 2008, during the regime of the army-backed caretaker government, sentenced the Awami League leader to 13 years in prison and fined him Tk 5 crore. The court also directed the authorities concerned to confiscate Mayas property.
Following an appeal of Maya, the High Court on October 27, 2010, acquitted him of the charges.
But, in response to an appeal made by the ACC against the HC order, the apex court scrapped the HC order and directed the HC to conduct a fresh hearing on the appeal.
