HC to hear Ershad’s 24-yr-old appeal in graft case on Nov 15

The High Court today fixed November 15 for hearing a 24-year-old appeal filed by former president HM Ershad challenging a lower court verdict that jailed him for three years in a corruption case.

The bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus set the date, as the Anti Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan in August prayed to the HC for hearing the appeal for its disposal.

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The then Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac), which became defunct after the formation of the ACC in 2004, filed the case against Ershad for misappropriating Tk 1.91 crore when he was the president from 1983 to 1990.

Ershad, also chairman of the Jatiya Party, was convicted by a Dhaka court in 1992 in the graft case. The court sentenced him to three years imprisonment and ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate the money and his Toyota Land Cruiser car.

The same year, Ershad filed an appeal, challenging the verdict, which the HC stayed.

Later Ershad had got bail in the case.