TIB for trashing ‘unequal’ provision from ACC Act

Voicing satisfaction over the High Court’s verdict  declaring section 32 (A) of the Anti Corruption Commission (amendment) Act 3013 unconstitutional, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to take initiatives to repeal the section. In a statement on Thursday, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said the HC verdict establishes that the section 32 (A) is unconstitutional and illegal, and everybody is equal in the eyes of law as per the constitution. He said the Prime Minister at the first cabinet meeting of the new government warned that injustice and corruption would not be tolerated. “Issuing the same warning at the parliamentary party meeting, she instructed the MPs to stay away from corruption and irregularities,” the TIB executive director said. Dr Iftekharuzzaman said people want the government to remove this suicidal and unequal provision from the ACC act to prove that it was not resorting to rhetoric of eliminating graft from society. Earlier in the day, the High Court declared unconstitutional the latest amendment to the Anti Corruption Commission Act curtailing its power. Pronouncing the judgment upon a wit petition, an HC division bench comprising Justice Kazi Reza-Ul Haque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain, scrapped the relevant section 32 (A) of the ACC (Amendment) Act, 2013, according to a news agency.