Wealth Statement of Tarique's Mother-in-Law
HC stays ACC notice
The High Court yesterday stayed the effectiveness of a notice issued by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for two months that asked BNP leader Tarique Rahman's mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu to submit her wealth statement to it.
In response to a writ petition, the HC bench of Justice Farid Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif also issued a rule asking the ACC in four weeks to explain why the notice should not be declared illegal.
The ACC issued the notice on October 20 last year asking Banu to submit her wealth statement to the commission within seven days after receiving the notice. She received the notice last week, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.
Banu filed the petition with the HC on January 29 challenging the legality of ACC notice.
She said in the petition that the HC earlier in 2010 had quashed the proceedings against her in a case filed of amassing illegal wealth, so the ACC notice asking her wealth statement now was illegal.
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