Court accepts charge sheet against Moudud, brother

A Dhaka court took cognisance on Sunday of the charge sheet against BNP's standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of grabbing a government house in the city's Gulshan area , reports UNB.
Dhaka Senior Special Judge M Zahurul Haque passed the order in the presence of the BNP stalwart after an hour-long hearing from the prosecution and the defence counsel.
The court also issued a warrant for the arrest of accused Manzur Ahmed, now living in London, fixing October 22 for submitting the report on compliance.
On May 26, ACC deputy director Harun-or-Rashid submitted a charge sheet to the CMM court against the two brothers-Moudud and Manzur. The prosecution made 20 people as its witnesses (PWs) for testifying against the two accused.
On December 17, 2013, the ACC filed the case against Moudud and his brother Manzur on charge of grabbing the government house, worth about Tk 3.0 billion.
According to the first information report (FIR), the Dhaka
Improvement Trust, established in 1956 (now renamed as Rajuk), handed over a plot of one bigha and 14 katha in the Gulshan residential area to Mohammd Ehsan on December 30, 1961. Later, the land was registered against his wife's name, Inge Maria Flatz, an Austrian national, in 1965. Ehsan was a Pakistani national.
As Ehsan and Flatz (both non-Bengalis) had left the country before the announcement of the list of government abandoned houses (the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs) on January 21, 1972, the plot was included in the list of abandoned houses.