ACC case against AL\\\'s Abdullah dropped

The Appellate Division has accepted a plea by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to drop a case against Awami League leader Sheikh Md Abdullah for concealing information on his wealth. Abdullah, the ruling party’s religious affairs secretary, was accused in a case filed in 2008 during the caretaker regime. It was the ACC, which filed an appeal against an earlier High Court (HC) verdict which ordered dropping the case. But a 3-member bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain rejected it on Thursday as the matter was ‘not pressed’ by the petitioner. The case, accusing Abdullah of hiding information of wealth worth Tk 4.2 million, was under the purview of Dhaka’s Special Judges Court-5. Abdullah moved the HC and filed a petition to scrap the case. After hearing arguments, the bench of Justices Md Shamsul Huda and Abu Bakar Siddiqui gave a verdict on Aug 18, 2010, quashing the case. The ACC later filed an appeal against HC’s decision in 2011. Khurshid Alam Khan, an ACC lawyer in the Supreme Court, said that the Supreme Court’s decision means that the ACC will no longer pursue the case. The High Court’s verdict will be upheld, according to bdnews24.com.