SC refuses to allow Mir Nasir, son to move appeals without surrender
The Supreme Court has refused to allow former BNP state minister for civil aviation Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son, both sentenced to jail in a corruption case, to move appeals before the court without surrendering to the lower court.
The High Court had earlier upheld their jail sentences in the corruption case.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain today dismissed the two petitions filed by Mir Nasir and his son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin seeking its permission to move leave-to-appeal petitions before the apex court challenging the HC verdict without surrendering to the trial court concerned.
The HC on November 19 last year upheld a lower court verdict that sentenced Mir Nasir to 13 years and his son Mir Helal to three years in jail in the corruption case for amassing properties illegally.
The HC also ordered them to surrender before the trial court three months after the trial court receives the certified copy of its verdict.
Following the apex court order, Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son Mir Mohammad Helaluddin must surrender to the trial court concerned to serve their jail sentences, Anti-Corruption Commission's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
He also said the trial court concerned received the certified copy of the HC verdict in the first week of August this year.
Lawyers AJ Mohammad Ali and AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon appeared for the petitioners during the hearing today.
According to the charge sheet of the case filed on March 6, 2007, Mir Nasir, his wife late Dalia Naznin Nasir, their daughter and son have wealth worth Tk 29.22 crore. But they showed properties worth about Tk 22.50 crore in the wealth statement.
On July 4, 2007, an anti-corruption tribunal sentenced Mir Nasir to 13 years for committing two corruption offences and his son Mir Helal to three years for abetting his father.
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