The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission to take legal action against its officials who are harassing people by issuing repeated notices. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order during the hearing on a leave to appeal petition filed by businessman Md Ashraful Haque against a High Court order that allowed the ACC to inquire his sources of income. The apex court, however, declared illegal a notice served on businessman Md Ashraful Haque by a deputy director of the commission. The commission’s deputy director Moniruzzman Khan had issued a notice to notify sources of income of a businessman after he had submitted his wealth statement. Talking to The
Independent, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan said that the apex court asked the ACC to take action against those who were harassing people by issuing notices with a malafide intention. Now the ACC has to issue notices to the people more carefully following the apex court order, he added.