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Metropolis Report-
Once more, a Dhaka court ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to provide the investigation’s findings in a graft case brought against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha for accumulating illicit wealth by July 13.
Judge Md. Asaduzzaman of the Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court issued the ruling after the ACC failed to present a report on today’s investigation. Eight dates have passed since the ACC began the investigation.
On October 10, 2021, ACC Deputy Director Md Gulshan Anowar lodged a complaint against SK Sinha with the ACC’s integrated Dhaka District Office-1 for allegedly collecting Tk 7.14 crore in the names of his brother and relatives by abusing power and transferring the money.
The case statement claims that SK Sinha stole a plot from Rajuk in the Uttara residential area while serving as chief justice and that, through the abuse of his position, he also grabbed a third, three-katha plot in the Rajuk Purbachal Project in his brother’s name.
Later, he converted the three-katha plot into a five-katha one, moved it from Purbachal to Uttara Sector 4, and handed one of his relatives power of attorney.
The former chief justice purchased the site from Rajuk for Tk 75 lakh, and at a cost of Tk 6.31 crore, he constructed a nine-story apartment complex there, according to the ACC’s probe.
The anti-graft organization also claimed that no legitimate source of funding for the purchase of the property and construction of the apartment complex had been identified. SK Sinha was given an 11-year prison term on November 9 of 2021 in a case involving an allegation of laundering Tk 4 crore.
