Case against Moudud
HC asks govt to explain
The High Court yesterday sought an explanation from the government why the initiation and continuation of the tax evasion case against BNP leader Moudud Ahmed should not be declared illegal.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) lodged the case against Moudud, a former law minister, with the Senior Special Judge's Court on January 15 on a charge of dodging Tk 6.85 crore in income tax for 1997-98 to 2006-07 fiscal years.
The case statement says Moudud concealed information about his wealth worth Tk 27, 68, 81,078 and gave false information to the income tax department about his authentic income and expenditure.
Following a writ petition, the HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Md Khurshid Alam Sarker issued a rule upon the government to explain in three weeks why the proceedings of the case against Moudud should not be declared illegal.
Moudud filed the writ petition with the HC on February 1 saying that the proceedings of the case were illegal, as another case had been filed against him during the caretaker regime in 2007 on the same allegations.
Another HC bench on January 16 granted anticipatory bail to Moudud for two months in the case.
Barrister Rafique-ul Huq and Advocate Ahsanul Karim appeared for Moudud, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Additional Attorney General MK Rahman represented the government.
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