HC upholds lower court order indicting Moudud for graft

The High Court (HC) today upheld the lower court order that took the charges into cognizance in a graft case over purchasing a government house against BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed.
A division bench of the HC comprising Justice Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and Justice JBM Hassan passed the order, a news agency report said.
Barrister Moudud himself moved the court while Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan for the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
During his submission, Moudud said, "I will definitely file appeal against the verdict as the special judges' court took the charges into cognizance with scrutiny."
Earlier on December 17, 2013, the ACC filed the case against Moudud and his brother Manzur on charge of grabbing a government house worth Tk3 billion in the capital's Gulshan area.
On May 26, 2014, ACC Deputy Director Harun-or-Rashid submitted a chargesheet to the CMM court against the two brothers - Moudud and Manzur.
On September 14, 2014, a court took cognisance of the chargesheet against them.
According to the first information report, the Dhaka Improvement Trust, established in 1956 (now renamed as Rajuk), handed over a plot of one bigha and 14 katha in Gulshan residential area to Mohammad 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 on January 21, 1972, the plot was included in the list of abandoned houses.