The Supreme Court today extended till September 2 its earlier order that suspended the enrolment of Barrister Muhammad Ashraful Islam as a lawyer for demanding resignation of the chief justice through a Facebook post on July 14.
The High Court questioned a lower court's order today that asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize property documents of Pirojpur's former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in connection with two corruption cases. The HC issued two separate rules asking the ACC to show causes in four weeks why the lower court's order
HC upholds lower court orders for freezing bank accounts of ex-MP Awal, his wife
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The High Court today upheld orders of a lower court that asked Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze bank accounts and seize documents of properties of former lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife in two corruption cases.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir, summarily rejected two separate appeals filed by Awal and his wife Laila Parvin challenging orders of a Dhaka court, on the ground that they were much late in filing the appeals.
The constituency seat of Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul alias Kazi Papul (Laxmipur-2) has been declared vacant. National Parliament Secretariat on Monday issued a gazette notification declaring illegal the parliament membership of Papul. The gazette stated that Shahid Islam had been stripped