HC asks JP leader Ruhul Amin Howlader to surrender

The High Court on Monday directed Jatiya Party leader and former state minister ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader to surrender in a trial court within two weeks in a corruption case filed by former bureau of anti-corruption (BAC) on charge of embezzling Tk 3.15 million.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Isalm Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order after hearing a revision petition filed by the ACC against a trial court order that acquitted Ruhul Amin Howlader from the charge brought against him.
Md Delwar Hossain, an Assistant Director of the then bureau of anti-corruption (BAC), filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station on November 19 in 1991 against Ruhul Amin Howlader on charge of embezzling Tk 3.15 million.
The reported embezzlement took place during the regime of HM Ershad's Jatiya Party government, when Howlader was state minister for textiles, according to the case documents.

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